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Status: Open Points: 250 Time: 18:37 - Apr 09, 2008

michaelscotty

transfering email to a new pc

I just bought a new pc with vista operating system and outlook as the email client. The old one is xp with thunderbird as the email client. Please tell me how to transfer all email and preferences to the new pc. I have a data transfer cable and everything transfered but the email.

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Date:: Apr 10, 2008

Time:: 07:16

michaelscotty,

I had to do this a few years ago and it was a Grade-A pain in th arse.

There are a couple of different techniques out there, including downloading Eudora (free) where you can "import" your mail files since they're in the same mbox (IMAP) structure. After that, you can import these into Outlook which does have a function to import from Eudora.

I also found this tutorial and it still seems relevant: http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/th2outl...

If you have any more questions, please post them to Quomon.

Oh, and have fun with Vista...I'm not one to sing its "praises"...in fact, I rolled my Vista machine back to XP. Of course, the SP1 for Vista that was just released has probably made a big difference.

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