Windows Live Mail 2012

EveryWhere

derrick wrote: »

Have already tried that, see #5, there is no ImportExportTools extension.


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or just use Outlook; https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/980534/export-windows-live-mail-email-contacts-and-calendar-data-to-outlook

peterbaker

EveryWhere, this is a side question, because the OP seems only to have one email account. Also no Outlook version is free, I believe?

But my question is this: can Outlook 2016 now import multiple email accounts from Windows Live Mail in one go, and simultaneously (or at all) all the self made Local Folders within the Windows Live Mail database? I don't think it could do all that last time I checked it out?

EveryWhere

peterbaker wrote: »

EveryWhere, this is a side question, because the OP seems only to have one email account. Also no Outlook version is free, I believe?

But my question is this: can Outlook 2016 now import multiple email accounts from Windows Live Mail in one go, and simultaneously (or at all) all the self made Local Folders within the Windows Live Mail database? I don't think it could do all that last time I checked it out?

Don't have Outlook 2016, so can't tell you.

peterbaker

Reading beyond the link Elsewhere provided, I quickly found this further Microsoft support article.

In it, there is bad news for those with post-2010 Outlook versions - certainly if using 64 bit. It seems very bloody minded of Microsoft towards those of us who loyally used Outlook Express then Windows Mail then Windows Live Mail 2011 and finally Windows Live Mail 2012. Support was not withdrawn I believe until 2015 or even 2016, yet all no fuss upgrade routes, especially those for us who use 64 bit Windows were effectively shut down by the launch of Outlook 2013 it seems.

Meantime those of us who had very large multiple email databases and hadn't the time to mess about with weird and wonderful export routines and who continued to use Windows Live Mail 2012 some months past its sell by date and saw it was still working and wondered why was it withdrawn, soon started to get other more blunt messages when the program started to corrupt our now valuable archives!

Worse than that, the major Windows10 Updates unilaterally hid our databases in windows.old and if we were unfortunate enough to search the computer and simply relink the moved data with the program after the first major update i.e. leave it in windows.old, the next major update overwrote it without warning!

Lots used Windows Live Mail 2012 but it seems clear to me that Microsoft got tired of the responsibility of maintaining larger and larger databases safely for a product that was given free.