Upgrading a relative's pc from 98 to xp: CONTEST

[plagiarist]

post the best way to save the email, email settings, etc. It's in outlook express now and I'll be loading Thunderbird once XP is on.

winner recieves a slightly moldy Goldfish(tm) cracker.

 

[KLin]

Forward each and every email to a gmail account :thumbsup:

 

[plagiarist]

Not viable on the given connection.

 

[Nohr]

I use e-Backup. It stores all of OE's folders, addresses, accounts (except for passwords I believe), and identities, and compresses it all in to one large file. You'd then have to restore it back to OE after XP is instaled and then use Thunderbird to import everything from OE.

It's not free but the 90 day trial should be all you need.