Is Vistas new windows mail compatible with OE?

Question

I have a desktop running XP home. The Email client is OE. My notebook is running Vista Home. I'm trying to use the same mailboxes over the nework so both my desktop and laptop have the same messages showing, but when I try to access the folder on my network, it says I don't have permission even though I've marked all the folders as SHARED. If i create a new folder (on the mapped drive) I can access the folder ok in MY COMPUTER, but if I try to select that folder for my storage area, the OK is not selectable. Any ideas?

I finally got Windows Mail to accept the Network Drive as the storage location, but the file names are different. In OE the files are .dbx in Windows Mail the file is .fol.

Answer 1

yes it is mail compatible with OE

Answer 2

i take advantage of the two Vista corporation sixty 4-bit and 32-bit, as nicely as XP 32-bit professional SP2 I additionally attempt to apply sixty 4-bit Vista at artwork; yet have a multitude of issues (that's positive, as I run a non-SOE laptop, checking out destiny O/S and purposes). I run Vista 32-bit at abode on laptop and laptop. Fewer programmes run outstanding on the Vista platform that the XP one. Many programmes that run in 32-bit version of Vista do no longer artwork or have drivers for the sixty 4-bit version. i take advantage of HP scanners and printers devoid of issues in the two of the 32-bit variations. And my abode laptop and laptop are sixty 4-bit CPU chips which run some distance greater suitable in 32-bit O/S. bear in mind although, it is not Vista that's no longer nicely matched with the utility; however the opposite. invoice's mob (Microsoft) has progressed an working gadget for different utility developers to take great thing approximately. Redmond won't be in a position to help it if their tries to rule the international through O/S domination have not succeeded. iTunes does no longer artwork on Vista???? rubbish. we've 2 shoppers set up on the laptop and a couple of others set up on guy or woman notebooks all employing Vista corporation 32-bit. With iTunes, the default area is interior the shoppers "My records" hierarchy, so there won't be in a position to be a conflict, and you may actually run a shared area - NO problem in any respect. time-honored, I choose Vista 32-bit O/S now that I actually are starting to be removed from the sixty 4-bit version

Answer 3

Check these out.
Vista and Outlook Express (OE Becomes Windows Mail)
http://tech.yahoo.com/gd/outlook-express-becomes-windows-mail-with-windows-vista/200398

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/mail.mspx