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MS Outlook Express

Application Script

Microsoft Outlook Express is an email client that comes with Internet Explorer.

Release Date

7/08/2008

Settings Description

• All Microsoft Outlook Express settings
• Address Book settings
• News and Mail Accounts settings

Migration Paths

• From 4.0 to 4.0
• From 4.0 to 5.0
• From 4.0 to 5.5
• From 4.0 to 6.0
• From 5.0 to 5.0
• From 5.0 to 5.5
• From 5.0 to 6.0
• From 5.5 to 5.5
• From 5.5 to 6.0
• From 6.0 to 6.0

Notes

• The accounts already configured on the destination are not overwritten. All the accounts from the Start Up identity on the source are migrated to Windows Mail.
• The settings of the default identity on the source are migrated to Windows Mail.
• While you migrate to Windows Mail, the settings and accounts only for the default identity are considered.
• To move your Address Book, you must log in as a current user before upgrading from 4.0.
• Contacts from Address Book in Outlook Express are not upgraded to Windows Contacts in Windows Mail. You can use the following command line to import the same:

  " 'Windows Mail install path\Wab' /Import 'path to wab file' ".
  

• Import and export the messages manually to migrate them from Outlook Express to Windows Mail.

Limitations

• You cannot migrate the Inbox rule for moving or copying messages to specific folders from 4.0 to 5.0, 5.5, 6.0.
• Migration of visible columns for Outlook Express is not supported from 4.0 to 5.0, 5.5, 6.0.
• You cannot migrate passwords for identities from 5.0 to 5.0, 5.5, 6.0; from 5.5 to 5.5, 6.0; and from 6.0 to 6.0. The passwords on your identities have been disabled.
• The current view option in View cannot be migrated from 5.0 to 5.0, 5.5, 6.0; from 5.5 to 5.5, 6.0; and from 6.0 to 6.0.
• Migration from the default settings in Outlook Express to the non-default settings in Windows Mail cannot be performed from previous versions to Windows Mail.