If the blocked senders list is in your rules, then yes, it will transfer
over. I am not terribly coversant with Windows Mail nor OE rules. I know
that OE rules can be moved to Outlook.
Transferring contacts is problematic if you use "groups" - a common use in
OE, as they are not recognized in Outlook. Outlook uses distribution lists,
not groups. Also, you may have problems exporting/importing sub-folders.
You would need to move them to the main contact folder to move them to
Outlook.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
After furious head scratching, BearySarah asked:
| Point taken. What got me upset was that it looked like the poster
| was simply picking at my language choice. Had he explained why my
| language choice was so important, I would have responded completely
| differently. Had I imported rather than exported, I would have had
| 2500 emails dated with the date of import. It would have been a mess.
|
| If you could answer 2 more questions I would appreciate it.
|
| 1. The documentation from the MS Outlook backup addin says, "Each
| .PST file contains all of your Outlook folders, including the Inbox,
| Calendar, and Contacts."
|
| What about the blocked senders list? I use it differently than most
| folks and it is very important to me. Is that also included in the
| .pst file?
|
| I found the registry key for the .iaf files so I'm okay for that.
|
| 2. I am very confused about exporting my contacts. That is an
| option in Export in Win Mail. But, I read somewhere else here, that
| it's not possible to export contacts because they won't end up right.
| What is the best way to handle contacts?
| Thank you in advance.
|
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| When you are asking for assistance/advice from strangers who are
|| trying to help, it may be a better stance to take the less abrasive
|| approach to responses.
||
|| Importing will lose your received dates on e-mails that you can only
|| get back by deleting all of your imported items and then export from
|| Windows Mail. Likewise, if you find that you need to reinstall your
|| operating system and need to restore your Outlook data, using import
|| is also the incorrect method to re-attach your data file to Outlook.
||
|| Import/export is only used to transfer non-native Outlook items to
|| Outlook. You export your mail and import your contacts. This goes
|| for both Windows Mail and Outlook Express.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|| ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
|| How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, BearySarah asked:
||
||| The reason it looks as if I don't know the difference between
||| exporting and importing is that I will be dealing with a new install
||| of Outlook and using Outlook to import my Win Mail data. Therefore,
||| for me, there will be no exporting. Period.
|||
||| "BearySarah" wrote:
|||
|||| I do understand the implications of what I am doing. The fact is,
|||| you don't export Win Mail to Outlook. You import WinMail into
|||| Outlook. I simply worded the subject incorrectly. My first
|||| operating system was DOS 3.3 and I've been migrating mail since
|||| Outlook Express 4. My switch from XP to Vista was flawless. I'm
|||| pretty good at this. Outlook will be a new email client to me. I
|||| needed information.
||||
|||| In other parts of the MS communities, I've received wonderful help
|||| and answers to my questions. I didn't expect the nastiness I've
|||| recieved here. DL, I hope you're proud of yourself.
||||
|||| And, by the way, no one has actually answered my questions.
||||
|||| And, if anyone needs to know how to import your blocked senders,
|||| saved senders lists from Win Mail into Outlook. Figure it out
|||| yourself. Obviously, dumb little me, who doesn't know the
|||| implications of miswording a subject line, can't be of any help to
|||| anyone.
||||
|||| "DL" wrote:
||||
||||| Before you set off on your high horse understand the implications
||||| of what you are doing, and the problems you will give yourself.
||||| To give you a clue 'modified dates'
||||| bye bye
|||||
||||| message |||||| No. After I install Outlook, I will import my Windows Mail stuff
|||||| into Outlook. Therefore, no reason to export anything. How
|||||| about a serious answer to my question? Anyone? Thank you in
|||||| advance.
||||||
|||||| "DL" wrote:
||||||
||||||| In Mail you Export msgs to Outlook (not Import)
|||||||
||||||| message
||||||| |||||||| I am using Windows Mail/Vista. If I install Outlook 2007, when
|||||||| I import my
|||||||| emails, settings etc, will it import all of my folders (I have
|||||||| a bunch) and
|||||||| their email contents? It's about 2500 emails.
||||||||
|||||||| Will they import as labeled "Imported Folders" underneath the
|||||||| regular list
|||||||| of folders?
|||||||| Will I be able to drag and drop them into the regular folders
|||||||| section? Or, am I going to have to recreate each folder
|||||||| separately, and then move
|||||||| the
|||||||| contents of each folder from the Imported Folders section in to
|||||||| their new
|||||||| folders that I've just created?
||||||||
|||||||| I had to do the recreation thing when I imported Outlook
|||||||| Express into Windows Mail. It took hours. It would be great
|||||||| to not have to do that.
|||||||| Thank you in advance.
||||||||
|||||||| BTW, there is a way to import the blocked senders list from Win
|||||||| Mail into
|||||||| Outlook 2007. If anyone is interested, I'll post it.
