Re: OT- Email Importing

| >>>(except for email account settings, still have to go and look for that
| one somewhere when I have the time).

you can export them to a file from tools>accounts select the email account
and click the export button, it saves them as .iaf files , you can then
import the account settings into another copy of outlook express with the
import button, which is above the export button.

ways and meanz

Paul Roberts

roberts_paul(at)bigfoot.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kehvan M. Zydhek" <kehvan(at)zydhek.net>
To: "Klaas De Waele" <klaas(at)gracegraphics.be>; "'Nancy Whittley'"
<NWHITTLEY(at)cinci.rr.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: OT- Email Importing


| >>>(except for email account settings, still have to go and look for that
| one somewhere when I have the time).
|
| Here's a tip: They're in the registry. They're huge (especially if you
have
| mail/news sort/filter rules turned on). They're amazingly messy and they
| NEVER restore EXACTLY the same, because SOMETHING is always just a touch
| different (usually the amazingly overcomplex USER ID string that looks
like
| a CLSID).
|
| Another tip: if you want your old email files to "lock" to your new email
| accounts, you better know the order you entered your email accounts (if
you
| have more than one, and many people do nowadays). I have quite a number
for
| administrative purposes. If I restore even ONE account out of order from
how
| they were added the previous time, my "old" emails from the previous
| installation will be "locked" to the wrong reply addresses -- what a total
| mess if you're not paying attention!
|
| Outlook/Outlook Express, despite their inherant shortcomings due to MS
being
| a little soft on certain type of security, are pretty decent
email/newsgroup
| programs. But the way they (or at least OE) manage things like email
account
| and mail sorting rules leaves a LOT to be desired.
|
| Kehvan
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Klaas De Waele" <klaas(at)gracegraphics.be>
| To: "'Nancy Whittley'" <NWHITTLEY(at)cinci.rr.com>;
| <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
| Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 05:23
| Subject: RE: OT- Email Importing
|
|
| | What I did up til now was just backup the entire directory with the
| Outlook
| | data (in Windows - Application Data - ...) and same with the .wab
address
| | book.  Then when I format, I install Outlook, start it up, make sure I
| | create some entry in the address book, close it down and copy the whole
| | stuff that I backed up to the new system (same place).  You then rename
| the
| | address book to the login name of windows (Click start - you see Log out
| | ..., you need the name) if this is different.  And hups, start Outlook,
no
| | complaints wheter, everything's there. (except for email account
settings,
| | still have to go and look for that one somewhere when I have the time).
| | Hope this helps, hope Win2000 will work like that too.
| |
| | - Kayjey -
|
|
|

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