Migrating/Exporting email from OE in XP to Outlook in 8/8.1

Bernard-Shakey · 9 Feb 2014 at 11:51

Father-in-law bought a new pc with win 8.0. He backed up his email files from Outlook Express in XP, and now wished to import them into Outlook 2010 on Win 8.

Does anyone know of a way to get from OE to Outlook without having to use WLM as a converter. Surely there's an easier way.

Cheers
BS

KIA · 9 Feb 2014 at 12:22

You can use https://code.google.com/p/undbx/ to convert the OLE DBX files to EML.

You can use http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home-email-archiving.aspx to convert EML to PST if you can't drag and drop the EML files into Outlook.

Bernard-Shakey · 9 Feb 2014 at 14:34

Thanks very much KIA, that looks just the thing.

BTW, the HDD from his old PC that he had XP/OE/outlook 2003 installed on works sporadically. If I could get it to stay on long enough, could I transfer the emails from OE to Outlook 2003 in the simple way (import/export) or do the files have to be converted regardless of age of programme?

Cheers
BS

KIA · 9 Feb 2014 at 15:46

Have a look at http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/o...m-outlook-express-to-outlook-HA001094387.aspx