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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | reply to SipSizzurp
Re: [WIN8] Outlook Express mail import (years of email) to Win 8 That was a pleasure reading posts from Bruce Hagen. He, and several other MVP's, were of immense to help to me over the many years Microsoft had a Newsgroup for Outlook Express. I was appalled at how Microsoft treated those wonderful MVP's when they decided to kill all their newsgroups and go to forums instead AND decided to NOT have an OE forum.
I certainly would not use Live mail...and that is dead isn't it anyway? I have a wonderful little program called OE Freebie Backup, from many years ago that one of the MS MVP's, Steve Cochran, wrote. (He took it off line many years ago and never put it back). I use it regularly as it backs up all my Identities and does it quickly too. I think it could be used to move the mail to a mail client in Win 8 capable of opening and viewing .dbx email files. I haven't used Thunderbird in years...can I import from OE to it....I don't remember from years ago. If I can, the OE freebie backup is very compact. I have it on an external hard drive so it would be easy to import if Thunderbird, or some other mail client, would accept importing from it. I was gong to use SeaMonkey mail client but SeaMonkey is not supported for Win 8 and the developers (when I asked) are not eager to support Win 8 and SM is not too stable on Win 8. So, I don't know what email client I will use.
I did stumble on a little free program called Mail View that will open OE mail for viewing but I would have to import it all to the Win 8 computer.
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
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| said by Mele20:I certainly would not use Live mail...and that is dead isn't it anyway?
It depends upon what you mean by, "Live mail"? Specifically, Microsoft briefly branded "MSN Hotmail" as, "Windows Live Mail". Probably concurrent with Windows Vista "Windows Mail", the immediate successor to Outlook Express. But when MS introduced the successor to "Window Mail" as, "Windows Live Mail desktop", that caused no end of confusion between the web mail service ("Windows Live Mail") and the desktop client ("Windows Live Mail desktop"). So they "punted": The web mail service, "Windows Live Mail", became, "Windows Live Hotmail", and the desktop client, "Windows Live Mail desktop", became, "Windows Live Mail".
"Live mail", as the desktop client, "Windows Live Mail", is alive and well; a component of the, "Windows Live Essentials" PC application suite.
"Live mail", as the web mail service is alive and well: Now branded as, "Outlook.com".
I have a wonderful little program called OE Freebie Backup, from many years ago that one of the MS MVP's, Steve Cochran, wrote. (He took it off line many years ago and never put it back). I use it regularly as it backs up all my Identities and does it quickly too. I think it could be used to move the mail to a mail client in Win 8 capable of opening and viewing .dbx email files.
I haven't used Thunderbird in years...can I import from OE to it....I don't remember from years ago.
If I can, the OE freebie backup is very compact. I have it on an external hard drive so it would be easy to import if Thunderbird, or some other mail client, would accept importing from it. I was gong to use SeaMonkey mail client but SeaMonkey is not supported for Win 8 and the developers (when I asked) are not eager to support Win 8 and SM is not too stable on Win 8. So, I don't know what email client I will use.
I did stumble on a little free program called Mail View that will open OE mail for viewing but I would have to import it all to the Win 8 computer.
There is also a workaround involving IMAP, but you would be exposing your precious email to the prying eyes of the IMAP service provider.
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