Windows Live Mail - Import Windows Mail Messages

Why would I do this if I can stay with my current OS and enjoy automatic mail notification feature?

Hello Rguachey,

If you decide to go to install Windows 7, then Windows Mail or any email client is not currently included in Windows 7. Windows Live Mail will then be the email client that will be the most common one to install with Windows 7.

Windows Live Mail has a automatic new message notification as well with a tray icon.

Sure you could manually add Windows Mail to Windows 7, but Windows Mail is no longer being supported by Microsoft.

Hope this helps answer why.

Shawn

windows mail messages

Hey guys,

I think you don't have to make any message conversion from windows mail to windows live mail, it is so simple. All what you have to do is:

1- Create a directory (new Folder) on one of your partitions, Ex. D:\WMail
2- Open your windows mail
3- Goto Tools, Options, Advcance, maintenance, store folder
4- Change it to the new folder you already created (WMail)
5- Click ok and close everything

RE-OPEN WINDOWS MAIL, IT WILL MOVE ALL YOUR MESSAGES TO THE NEW FOLDER.

YOU CAN NOW FORMAT YOUR WINDOWS VISTA PARTITION AND INSTALL WINDOWS 7

INSTALL WINDOWS LIVE MAIL

1- Create a directory (new Folder) on one of your partitions, Ex. D:\WLMail
2- Open your windows mail
3- Goto Tools, Options, Advcance, maintenance, store folder
4- Change it to the new folder you already created (WLMail)
5- Click ok and close everything
6- go to your windows mail store folder D:\WMail\Local Folders, and copy all the subfolders to D:\WLMail\Storage Folders

7- Open WLM again to see all your messages and email accounts there

Hope that could be in help to your case

I have tried importing from WLM to WLM (old PC to new PC) several times now without success. I follow the import process just as it is written, and it appears to work. But when I go to my Storage Folders, they are empty. New mail shows up on the new PC's inbox, but only since yesterday. I exported messages to the Public folder, moved it to the new PC's non-Public folders and imported. It shows me how many messages it is importing and in which folders, but none actually appear anywhere. Please help. I did confirm that my view on the new PC is set to show all messages. Anything else I can try?

Hello JJmcd96, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Double check the steps one more time. Be sure that you are exporting your Windows Mail messages into a New Folder, and copying that New Folder into Windows 7 to be selected to be imported by Windows Live Mail.

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn

I did just try this again, and all I get is another empty imported folder. I started over with a whole new export, then imported those messages (after copying and pasting to a location on the new PC). It counts them down as it imports them but then fails to show them. Any other thoughts as to where these messages might be?

I'm not sure. You might try this workaround to forward the messages from your account in Windows Mail to the email address in Windows Live Mail.

I need some help/advice please. I am about to upgrade my partners Vista computer to windows 7 32 bit. On his old computer he uses Windows Mail and on the new system he is going to be useing Office 2007 which uses outlook. He's also really cluttered up his Documents folder with tons of subfolders that refuse to allow deletion or renaming, go figure. So my initial plan is to make a backup of all his folders on his c drive to an external drive so a copy of everything is saved. Then comes the fun part.

He wants me to do a nice "Clean" install of Win7 instead of an Upgrade which I personally think is the best thing to do before Fall semester starts and then I will manually copy just the documents he needs to have access to to the new install. This will elliminate all the misc junk folders he ended up having with Vista. But then, after I install Office 2007 on his new system he wants to import the Vista Mail messages and address book entries into outlook 2007 on the new install. What is the best way to go about all of this to avoid as much headache as possible.

I did post this also in the Vista forums and appologize if its considered a repeat but when I posted it I got a mssg that the tread I posted to was considered old and I might not get a response & I need to solve the problem as fast as possible.

Sincerest Thanks
Jess

Well, it is so easy to import mails from windows mail, just follow these steps pls.


1- install microsoft outlook (2007 or 2003) on windows vista
the outlook will find an email account on your computer and will ask you if u want to import it,,,,, do that and import the account setting and messages.

2- from within outlook,, open tools, options, mail setup and data files where you can see the location of you PST file,, click on open folder and minimize it.
3- close outlook.
4- copy the outlook.pst file to your external drive

format your pc, install office 2007, setup the email account,, open the data folder, replace the current outlook.pst with the one you got.


cheers

Meifo's instructions should work fine for getting the Windows Mail messages transferred to Outlook and then porting the Outlook PST file to the new Win7 install.

However, I don't believe Outlook 2003/2007 have an EXPORT function for the actual email Accounts. In prior versions email accounts could be exported to IAF files. I suggest you write down your friends email account(s), settings and passwords before doing the migration.

Also, if your friend is interested in using Windows Live Mail for its mobility aspects, the Outlook Connector enables the Outlook to be used as a Windows Live Mail interface.

Export this key. It is your Outlook 2007 Account settings.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook

You cannot "backup" your PST in it's entirety (rules, messages, et al) using the import/export tool. You can, however, accomplish this by copying your PST file(s) when Outlook is CLOSED.

This info may not be pertinent to this thread, I just wanted to share knowledge relevant to MDs post.

OT here... LOVE the new avatar Antman!

Tried to get promoted at McAwful's myself.... could not pass the MMPI!

Importing Emails

I successfully imported Windows Mail emails and they appeared as you indicated in the Storage Folders. The Received emails display properly - that is the email listing shows who sent the email to me. However the "Sent" emails, which are in their own separate "Sent" folders (for example "July 2009 Sent"), also shows only who sent the emails, which of course is me in every case.

If I copy emails from the "July 2009 Sent" folder to the "Sent" subfolder within the Storage Folder or the "Sent" subfolder within the Current Folder, the email listing displays (or can display) to whom the email was sent, as I would want it to.

However if I move the "July 2009 Sent" folder as a subfolder of these same existing Sent Folders, again the email listing will not display to whom the emails were sent but only that I sent them.

Is there a way of setting what will be displayed for each folder like there is in almost every other email program I've ever used?

I have searched for a download of Windows Mail 64 bit, but can't find one. I would be very happy with Windows Mail on my new laptop as it was on my prior Vista 32 bit machine.

Hello Paul, and welcome to Seven Forums.

For the best results, it best to only copy the imported emails into your email account's folders and not the imported folders.

Is there a way of setting what will be displayed for each folder like there is in almost every other email program I've ever used?

Click to expand...

Do you mean messaged rules? If so, then you can click on Tools (Alt+M), Message Rules, and Mail to create rules for how messages are filtered to your inbox folders.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Columns And Faded Print

I found the "Columns" option under the View menu and it allowed me to set which columns are visible in the email listing once I set the emails to display on 1 line instead of 2 (which was the default).

Is there any problem keeping my email History within the Storage Folder? To backup, I copy emails from the Current Folder to the History Folder - a separate subfolder for each Month and whether Send or Received. I then backup the History Folder to an external hard drive.

While the "To" or "From" person appears in normal print in the email list, the Subject and Date appear in faded print - is there any way to get the entire description of the email to be in normal print?

Thanks for your response.

Paul,

That would be find to store and back them up like that.

There's no way to change the faded print that I know of though.

good very nice

Hello Smart people!

I am trying hard to get Windows mail back on track after installing the ultimate upgrade from Windows 7. Windows mail the programme is working, since i followed your instructions . BUT i cannot import all my old mails. Very frustrating! Can you help? I dont know which folders to look in, every folder i look in there seems to be no recognition from the import-wizzard. Thanks for helping me!

Hello Corry, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Did you export them into a new folder on the desktop first to be able to import them into Windows 7 later?

You might double check to see if you may have made a mistake somewhere during the export and import steps below.

Windows Mail - Messages - Vista Forums

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn