Migrating Email from Windows XP to Windows 7

In message , BillW50
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In ,
J. P. Gilliver (John) typed:
But you would have to first install TB on the XP machine, only to move
it again afterwards.

Why not use Thunderbird Portable? There is no installing and everything
is contained in one folder. I use it all of the time on most of my
machines. Then I sync it from machine to machine. It is really fast when
I use the Backup/Restore functions under SyncBack.

I don't think my elderly friend is going to be using more than one
machine really (-:!

But I have seen similar suggestions before, using the portable version
of things like Thunderbird.

Presumably there are advantages to _not_ using the portable version for
people who are just installing on a single machine - otherwise surely
the portable version would be the default?
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A sleekzorp without a tornpee is like a quop without a fertsneet (sort of).

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , BillW50
writes:

I see this oeclassic is, though, a real and maintained prog. - though
(as another has said here; see http://www.oeclassic.com/order) there
are significant (and the implication is increasing) differences
between the free and paid version, the clincher for me probably being
that it adds an ad. to every email sent. (The paid version is 20.34
GBP or $29.9x.)

My recent exchange about OE Classic.

Subject: Trying to decide if this will work for me.


[OEC VERSION] None yet
[ REGISTERED] ?
[ WINDOWS] xp, Vista.

Does this product support message rules?
Does it improve upon the rules choices available in OE6?
Does it improve on OE6 quoteing, like OE Quotefix does with OE6?
What are the differences between the free and paid versions?
Can the paid version be used on more than 1 of my computers?


Hello Bob,

OE Classic does not yet support message rules. It should be added very soon
in the future updates.
Message rules will be more advanced (will offer more filtering choices) than
in OE6.

For the quoting you should download the free version and see if the quoting
fits your needs.

Differences are all listed on order page in the table -
www.oeclassic.com/order - scroll down the page to see the difference list.

Yes, paid version can be used on 2 or more computers. As long as you are the
only user you can install it on all your computers. But, if more than one
person is using it, once license does not cover it - so each license covers
exactly one person.

best regards,
Zvonko Tesic

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In message , Nil
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On 17 Jan 2014, "W" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Is it correct that Windows 7 no longer has Microsoft Outlook
Express? Is there any option to buy this software from
Yes.
Microsoft?
No - it won't run under 7. (At least, I think some people have managed
to get it to do so, but it's a lot of work, and I'd say worth making the
transition to something else - IMO Thunderbird is probably the least
worst option, though I haven't looked at this OEClassic yet.)
[]
I have a relative migrating from XP to Windows 7, and I would not
be thrilled having to install an overweight application like full
Microsoft Outlook. I was hoping to find a way to install
Outlook Express and then export from XP and import directly to the
same application on Windows 7.

I just went through this exercise for a friend. On his new Windows 8
computer I installed Mozilla Thunderbird. It imported all his Outlook
Express mail folders. You can export the OE addressbook in vCard or CSV
format, which can then be imported into Thunderbird.

Given that (AFAIK, at least easily) OE won't run on 7 (let alone 8), how
did you get TB to "import" all the OE folders? Does it expect to find
them already in certain places, or can you tell it where (e. g. on a
memory stick) they are [if so what files/folders need to be copied]? I
ask because I have previous experience of some mail clients (not sure
whether including TB) offering to import everything from other ones, but
then not doing so as they weren't in the expected place and/or format.

Outlook Express appears to have three types of information that require
transferring to a new system:

1) Address Book
2) Accounts
3) Message Store

If the destination was Outlook running under Windows 7 on a new computer,
what would be the right method to move over these three types of data?

For Address Book:

1a) You can do Tools | Address Book and then select export to file type WAB

1b) You can do File | Export from the main menu and select Address Book as
the object of export.

I'm not sure if this creates the same type of data file or not?

For Accounts: go to Tools | Accounts and then select Mail tab. From
there export to type IAF.

For Message Sto go to File | Export and select Messages. I have no
idea what type of data format that creates.

Are these the only export files we need to create and move to the new
computer? Will all of these import cleanly into corresponding Import
functions in Outlook? Should we care about whether it is Outlook 2003 or
2007 or 2010?

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W