Exporting Outlook Express Email Messages

[amaunator]

I am almost done setting up my wife's new computer I built. The last thing I need to do is move her email message that she has saved. The trouble I ran into seems to be that you need outlook on the same machine as the outlook express in order to export it. In other words, it does not export to a file like Outlook does. Any help with this?

 

[JJWalker]

On the old machine, the easiest way to locate Outlook Express' email store is to ask Outlook Express. Fire it up, and then in Tools, Options, on the Maintenance tab there's a button labeled Store Folder. Click that, and it will tell you the folder containing your email folder, and hence, all your messages.

Copy the entire contents of that directory to a floppy, CD-ROM or share on your network. And then place it in the same location on the new machine.