Outlook express help.?

Question

On the home pc my dad has a email which he uses for business which is a fsnet.co.uk email. He accesses it through outlook express. On saturday he is going away for a fortnight and will not be able to access the home computer. if he puts the same pop3 settings into outlook express on a laptop will it receive his emails as the internet connection wilnot be the home connection his email is linked to? also is there any way of transfering a outlook express inbox from one computer to another? without forwarding every email. thanks

Answer 1

Here is link explaining how to transfer email and address book to laptop from desktop. POP3 mail server can be accessed from anywhere using internet (whether home's internet, hotel's internet etc)


Three different method are given below. select any one of it:-

http://www.iopus.com/guides/free-oe-backup.htm
http://www.iopus.com/guides/oe-backup.htm
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/transfer_mail_and_address_book_to_new_laptop.html

Remember 3 things to transfer are mail, address book and account information. Password for that mail account is only thing that is difficult to transfer but can be manually type on new computer.

Also remember to maintain POP3 mail server account on only one computer either home desktop or laptop. You should not use outlook express on both computers at same times as some mail will go to laptop and other will go to desktop.

hope it was helpful

Answer 2

Yes if he sets up the Outlook Express on the laptop with the correct settings he will receive the e-mail as long as he is able to connect by hotspot wifi or some other Internet service. The only thing is that the Outlook Express at home should remain closed since if it connects first then it will get the mail.
Yes he can transfer his inbox from one computer to the other with out forwarding. It has been a long time since I have used Express but I think there is an export wizard in the file menu. It can also be done with the back up I believe.

Answer 3

Freeserve (fsnet) is now owned by Orange. You can access your emails via the Orange web site from any PC with Internet access (provided you know the password). That is much simpler than transferring the email account and will also ensure your father can send emails whatever ISP he is using to get on-line.

Answer 4

Yes, the pop3 settings should work on the laptop -- the only problem might be the outgoing mail server if he is connecting to the internet using a different ISP. ISPs typically want you to use only *their* outgoing mail servers to prevent spam.
You can export your messages in outlook and then save to disk or network and import to laptop.

Answer 5

Dear

If you want to transfer your all PC email to your Laptop than follow the following.

For Microsoft Outlook
Win98/Se (Address Book)
C:\windows\application data\microsoft\address book
in this folder copy .wab file to your CD/Drive

WIN98 XP (Address Book)
C:\Documents and Settings\goutam\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book

E-mail (this is default windows settings path only)
C:\windows\application data\identies\{2cc...\Microsof... Express\*.dbx (copy all this files to your cd/Drive)

Win XP (this is default windows settings path only)
C:\ or D:\Documents and Settings\ User Name (e.g. your login window name)\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{C271C29C-B1EF... Express\*.dbx (Copy all these file to CD/Drive)

after this with the help of same procedure copy all *.dbx files from CD to your OUTLOOK FOLDER (The path of your Outlook shown through Open OUTLOOK CLICK TOOLS AND SELECT OPTION TAB AND SELECT MAINTAINCE TAB THAN CLICK STORE FOLDER AND CHECK THE PATH. YOU CAN ALSO CHANGE THE PATH MAINTIN AS PER WISH.)

I hope this information will meets your requirement.

Goutam