Outlook Express question

[Jimi5]

I'm getting a Mercury computer soon and was wondering if that e-mail stored on my current Outlook Express account will appear on my new computer automatically or do I have to save those e-mails somehow and then load them onto my Mercury computer?

[Steven Edwards]

1. Email Messages:

From the Outlook Express menu select Tools | Options | Maintenance and click the StoreFolder button. You see a dialog with the name of the directory that has your mail files. If you look in that directory you find files named after your mail folders and news groups. They all have a .DBX suffix. Outlook Express keeps all messages in these database files. If you make copies of these files regularly, you'll have a safe backup of your OE mail.

Restore (if necessary): To restore the backup data, just copy it back to the directory. You can selectively restore folders by just copying specific files back. Alternatively, you can use OE's File | Import | Messages feature to import one or more of the backup folders. Email Account Settings

link (http://www.iopus.com/guides/oe-backup.htm) Hope this helps. :)

[rye1945]

You will have to move both your email and your addresses. Under the Outlook Express help menu, you should be able to get the information on backing up your addresses and mail. Then you need to move those file to your new computer. Then you will have to import, etc. (based on how they have you create the backups). If you need detailed help, let us know.

[philquad36]

or
[DRIVE]:\Documents and Settings\[PROFILE NAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\[SOME WEIRD NUMBER]\Microsoft\Outlook Express

backup that folder and copy into new install

[Jimi5]

I found the e-mail I want to have on my new computer. Can I put them onto cd or a flash drive and transfer them to my new computer?

[Steven Edwards]

Yeppers.

[teyrn]

there are programs out there that will ease the hassle of backing up your outlook express and importing it to another outlook on another PC.
some are free even, do a google search for like outlook express backup.