Can I move emails from Microsoft Office to Outlook Express on a new laptop?

sunni

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

I too am confused, I need to test all of this out using an outlook account If I can get hold of one, with my pen drive. I need to go out for now but I will get back too you soon I hope, this is driving me nuts
Do you know how to put screen shots on here ? If not no problems but I will try again when I get back .Sorry about this

Screen shots, not really (sorry). Its driving me nuts as well but not to worry Im sure we'll get there in the end :-)

debitcardmayhem

OK I slept on this after trying out the following on my kit .

Go back to local folders and right click settings change the local directory back to
C:\Documents and Settings\myusername\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\4u6d6yd5.default\Mail\Local Folders
Restart Tb and you shoud have the O2 account and an empty local folders (well ok maybe a Junk in there)

Now We will create a new Dummy Account to USe the Pendrive
FIle/New/Mail Account
Your Name = Outlook Old
Email Address = dummy@localhost
(you will get a Double check email address message ignore that )
Password = leave blank
Press Continue

The box will expand and and Thunderbird will check your mail settings
when it comes up "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account (about a minute)"
You will have (if not change them as below)
Username dummy
Incoming localhost POP 110 None
Outgoing localhost SMTP 25 None
Now press Manual Setup

This will give us Account Settings Server Settings box
Uncheck - Check new mail at startup
Uncheck - Check for new messages every
Uncheck - Automatically download new messages
Select browse on the Local Directory
browse to F:\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile\Mail\Local Folder
Select Ok
Restart TB
You should now have
The O2 Account and dummy@localhost and local folders
Can you now post back what you have for the dummy@localhost account please

What we want to do next, if this is how I hope it looks, we will copy all the stuff from the old
system to your new Local Folders so they stay on your new lappy and then we can remove the dummy (dont call me that ) account and that should be the end.

sunni

Ok have done all that - dummy@localhost has subfolders underneath it with the old emails from my old pc - the local directory is F:\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile\Mail\Local Folder

debitcardmayhem

Morning, nope Afternoon , Good we are hopefully nearly there now then
Lets check that the settings for Local Folders/Location is C:\Documents and Settings\myusername\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\4u6d6yd5.default\Mail\Lo cal Folders just in case
If it is

1st Create a new folder in Local Folders called Outlook Stuff (you choose name)
Under that create Subfolders for each of the folders you have in dummy
next click on every folder in dummy / then CTRL-A / highlights all the messages in that folder whilst highlighted select Message (on toolbar) /Copy To>/Local Folders >/"what you called Outlook Stuff">/The relevant folder
This should copy all the messages from the Pen drive to your local folders/stuff

sunni

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Morning, nope Afternoon , Good we are hopefully nearly there now then
Lets check that the settings for Local Folders/Location is C:\Documents and Settings\myusername\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\4u6d6yd5.default\Mail\Lo cal Folders just in case
If it is

Yes thats what it says

1st Create a new folder in Local Folders called Outlook Stuff (you choose name)
Under that create Subfolders for each of the folders you have in dummy
next click on every folder in dummy / then CTRL-A / highlights all the messages in that folder whilst highlighted select Message (on toolbar) /Copy To>/Local Folders >/"what you called Outlook Stuff">/The relevant folder
This should copy all the messages from the Pen drive to your local folders/stuff

Ok have new folder created in local folders. In dummy they are 5 folders ie. Outlook Mail, Archive Folder, Personal Folders, Personal Folders 2, Personal Folders 3, Personal Folders 4 - within these personal folders are subfolders ie inbox, outbox, junk box, sent items etc - Do I create all these subfolders under the new folder in local folders?

debitcardmayhem

Yep That is fine

sunni

Yipeeeeeeeee :-) all folders and subfolders copied in Local Folders - thanks to you debitcardmayhem :-) so now do I just delete the dummy@localhost account in tb?

debitcardmayhem

yes go to account settings highlight dummy then at the bottom of that screen it say account actions remove account

sunni

Brill brill brill, your a genius :beer: thank you sooooooo much!! When I open up tb now it says indexing xx of 2184 messages (the old ones), maybe thats normal.

I've just done a test email and everythings working ok :-) just shows the subject as spam though.

Thanks again I owe you a double :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer: lol

debitcardmayhem

thanks, enjoy your time with TB, As for the :beer: I haven't had one for 2 1/2 weeks, thats probably why it took so long to sort . Wife has promised to drive me out for one tonight so I might just enjoy it now. Whats with the :spam: subject bit