Outlook Express to Live Mail

Danm54

Danm54

Danm54

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What's the easiest way to transfer e-mails and the address book from Outlook to Live Mail?

Ive got as far as adding the e-mail addy but cant get his contacts etc over.

Do i have to export them on to a USB then import them to Live Mail?

Also im having problems seting the POP address, where do i find it in Outlook? I can only find bt.internet and that doesn't seem to work.


Cheers
 
If you install the Connector all you have to do is enter your hotmail address and all e-mails and contacts will syncronise.

edit: oh you want to export your contacts from your BT account?
 
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Tim said:
If you install the Connector all you have to do is enter your hotmail address and all e-mails and contacts will syncronise.

edit: oh you want to export your contacts from your BT account?
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Yea, ive got 1 PC running XP and a new build running W7, i want to transfer Outlook from the XP machine to the W7 one. I thought Windows Live Mail was the replacement for Outlook so ive installed that, just cant get the POP address right and cant get contacts etc over.

Cheers
 
Right ok. Forget the connector stuff, i thought you were wanting to use a hotmail/live account in outlook.

In outlook on your XP machine, go to file > import and export > export to a file > comma separated values (windows) > choose the relevant folder (contacts, inbox whatever) and the import the .csv into windows live mail.

or you could create a .pst file and export that, if windows live mail supports it of course, should do..
 
Outlook Express, (as specified in the post title), saves its contacts in a .wab file. Simply import this in to Live mail on the Contacts screen.
 
Email accounts can be exported from Outlook Express and imported into Live mail.

Does the OP have Outlook or Outlook Express on the old system?
 
Import the old Address Book then!
If you also export the old email accounts from the accounts screen you will be able to import all of the settings they use.
 
Install live mail on the old machine, it'll do it for you then you can just copy the store folder over.
 
Export the server settings on the old machine. Import the .iaf that creates on to the new machine.
 
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