Hi Bill
Excuse the rather fullsome post, it is not all aimed at you, I just realised I
haven't covered this bit of Outlook Express on the list before,so I thought it
might be useful for others too.
As I understand it you want to be able to take the emails you have stored on one
computer running Outlook Express and put them onto another computer that is also
running Outlook Express.
OK, here goes:
Microsoft (bless there hearts) have buried email data for Outlook Express deep
in the Windows directory structure, you can find them at the following location.
c:\windows\application data\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Mail
Inside this incredibly awkward place is where all of your emails live. Here,
you can see something similar to the system Eudora uses for it's own email
storage. If you just copy these files onto floppies and then copy them to the
same directory on the new machine you should get the desired result. You should
not need to touch the import feature.
In answer to your second question about where the account data is hidden in the
Outlook Express program here are the steps to find it.
1 With outlook Express running go to the "tools" menu and select "accounts".
There should be at least one account there if it has been properly set up.
2 In the accounts dialogue highlight the relevant account and press alt+P (or
tab to the properties button).
3 You are placed in a multi-tab dialogue, the first tab is the General tab
which contains info on the friendly name of the account, screen name and email
address. There is also a check box here which you can check to make sure that
the account is included when doing a full send and recieve.
4 Pressing control+tab gets you to the "servers" tab (which I think is what
you really wanted to know about). Here you can specify the SMTP and POP3
servers your provider uses, also contained here is your username and password
details for this account.
5 Pressing control+tab once again gets you to the "connection" tab which
deals with things like which dial-up connection you use, or whether you are on a
network and therefore do not need to dial anything etc.
6 Pressing control+tab for the third time gets you to the "security" tab,
this has to do with digital signatures. Don't ask me how this works because I
have never used it and don't know.
9 The advanced tab (control+tab 4 times) has to do with the port numbers
needed to access your email server, and various other odds and ends. You should
not need to do anything with this dialogue unless your ISP is rather strange or
your server requires authentication.
Hope this helps.
Tris
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 March 1999 10:18
Subject: outlook express, moving files from one system to another
>how does a person go about moving their e mail folders to a differant machine.
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>in eudora it is the
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>mbx and toc files plus one extra file per folder.
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>any info on this is appreciated.
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>also can outlook express have a folder in a folder.
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>the reason i ask is that outlook express import feature which is a breeze
>to use, took one folder that had 35 mail boxes and created
>35 seperate folders.
>i understand that outlook uses only folders, so i expected it to create
>one folder at top level with 35 folders inside it.
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>another question, where does one enter or change the settings for the e
>mail server and all that stuff.
>the import feature got it right, but one never knows when they may need to
>mess with it.
>so wonder where it is?
>thanks in advance.
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>bill cameron
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