Importing E-Mails into Outlook Express on a different computer?

Question

I got my dad a new computer for Christmas, but the e-mails stored on his old one are crucial business-wise. We're backing up the old computer to an external hard drive and loading the data to the new one, including all the e-mail files. Once those new files are put on the new computer, how do we import them into Outlook Express?

Answer 1

I don't have it installed right now. So, from memory, here goes. Make sure you get the the rules and ignored people list from the registry. Search for OE rules.

After you install OE on the new machine, determine what it's directory name is (it creates one of those long funky ones
(Search for folder.dat is the easiest way to find it.)

Delete everything in that directory and load your old email into it.

If you don't see the email. you may have to delete folder.dat and then restart OE. You'll have the mail message, but you will lose all of the folders in the process. (That may happen in any case!).

P.S. The answer right above me is talking about "Outlook" and not "Outlook Express".

Answer 2

Find the .pst file on the old computer and copy it across -- you should now be able to open the old pst file using the outlook "Import And Export" -- the following is copied from the Microsoft site link for you convenience

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How to import .pst file data into Outlook
Use the following steps to import a .pst) file into Outlook:
1.On the File menu, click Import And Export. If the menu item is not available, hover your pointer over the chevrons at the bottom of the menu, and then click Import and Export.
2.Click Import from another program or file., and then click Next.
3.Click Personal Folder File (.pst), and then click Next.
4.Type the path and the name of the .pst file that you want to import, and then click Next.
5.Select the folder that you want to import, or select the top of the hierarchy to import everything, and then click Finish

Answer 3

On the old computer, open outlook express. Go to "FILE->EXPORT->MESSAGES". Save the file. Put the file onto the new computer (using a cdrom, harddrive, whatever).

On the new computer, open outlook express, Go to "FILE>IMPORT>MESSAGES". Find the file that you saved from the old computer.

Simple as that....