Data transfer MS Outlook -> Win Live Mail

[hyarmion]

The situation is this: there are two PC's, the old one, a WinXP machine using MS Outlook 2003 as the e-mail program; and a new one, a Win7 machine onto which I downloaded Win Live Mail to use as the e-mail program.

The user wishes to transfer everything in Outlook across to Win Live Mail on the new machine. I exported his Outlook contacts to a csv file and then imported them into Win Live Mail successfully. But I am having real problems trying to transfer his e-mail messages across. Win Live Mail's import wizard does not list Outlook as an import-from option (Only Outlook Express and Windows Mail). Nor does it appear to be able to locate the .csv or .pst files I have exported from Outlook (even tho I have told it which folder to look in).

Has anyone done this before?

 

[cmeagan656]

Is this of any use?

Hope this helps.

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[strongm]

>Win Live Mail's import wizard does not list Outlook

Sadly, it only lists it as an option if Windows Live Mail is running on a machine with Outlook installed (since it uses Outlook components to do the import)

 

[hyarmion]

Thanks, guys, very helpful.