Der Jon.

My good friend Gargoyle said that silly old cluttered John (I resemble
that) was asking questions but could not  make himself  clear so could I
help. tell it what he was saying. I suggested that rearranging and trimming
his question to  something like:

    I want to move emails from OutLook Express to Win 7 import  OE files

may do the trick. Or not.

Gargoyle said wot about (hit 1), which lacketh in fine detail but suggests
that the path is worthwhile, is not discontinuous, and leadeth at the last
to safe harbour":

"
[Solved] Best replacement for *Outlook Express* in *Win 7* (64bit
*...*<http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/1763-63-best-replacement-outlook-express-64bit>
"

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/1763-63-best-replacement-outlook-express-64bit

 Best answer from
sminlal<http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/1763-63-best-replacement-outlook-express-64bit#t13132>
I've used Outlook Express on my home system for many years and it worked
just fine for me. The lack of it in Windows 7 annoyed me because it meant I
had to spend time researching and testing alternatives.

I settled on Thunderbird. I'm currently running 2.0.0.23 on 64-bit Win7 RC
Build 7100. It works perfectly well for me - I have multiple e-mail accounts
which I'm able to access through one Thunderbird profile. Thunderbird gives
you a choice as to whether you want to receive mail from each account into
separate inboxes or into a common inbox (I use the latter). It's able to do
everything that I did under Outlook Express and the learning curve was very
minor.

The most difficult part was migrating my mailboxes full of existing e-mails
(some going back over a decade), and that's because many of mine are
hierarchically organized. The hierarchy was not preserved and so I had to
manually move folders around in order to reproduce the same organization I
had in OE. Once that was done, though, it was smooth sailing.

_______

hIT 2 LOOKeD USEFUL:

http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/outlook/10180/importing-OE-folders-dbx-emails-message-rules-into-Windows-7

And thee third like unto it (ie not perhaps eactly what's asked but useful
notwithstanding).

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Import-messages-into-Windows-Mail-from-Outlook-Express

The next quite a few also looked surprisingly well focused on the question.

______________

Conclusions:

1.  Asking Gargoyle

    I want to move emails from OutLook Express to Win 7 import  OE files

may be useful..

2.  Your original thought seemed on target.


                      Russell


             to move to an email program that will allow me to import the OE
files for future reference.

>
> Google IS NOT MY FRIEND when I need a short, concise answer. It sometimes
> gives me way too much information to process!
>
> I have not investigated many choices at this point but I am considering
> Thunderbird.
>
> I receive several hundred emails per day and I like it that way.
> I use many email folders and many message rules.
> Yes, I lead a very cluttered life and I like it.
>
> Recommendations, warnings and pointers to links are preferred but scolding
> for getting myself into this situation will be cheerfully acknowledged.
>
> If you feel the need to rant about my request, my IQ or whatever, please
> feel to do so. It is OK to unload your frustrations, I can handle it...
>
> TIA,
>
> John Ferrell  W8CCW
>
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