I have spent at least 6 hours over the past 3 days trying to export Windows Mail to Outlook 2010. I know that WM stores mail as *.eml and Outlook stores them as *.pst. I even know where the paths to each of those files and folders are in Windows. Windows Explorer and I have spent a lot of time together lately.
I have Google searched many threads, downloaded freeware utilities that supposedly will do this with ease and tried the built-in export feature of Windows Mail. Nothing has worked so far.
Here's what I have. I am running Vista Home Premium x64. I recently installed MS Office Pro 2010. I have been using Windows Mail that came with it for a long time. I would like to move/copy/export all mail from WM to Outlook 2010 and just use Outlook from now on. This is all on the same PC.
When I try to use the Export feature of WM and I select the Microsoft Exchange it gives a MAPI error. I can export the mail as messages (only other option) but that doesn't help with getting it over to Outlook.
I have tried doing this when Outlook was configured as the default email. I tried doing it with WM as the default email. I tried it with Outlook running in the background. I tried it without Outlook running in the background. I have configured Outlook to d/l mail from my server and it works fine for sending and receiving messages.
I ran across some commercial utilities that claim to do what I want but they cost more than the $9.95 price I paid for MS Office 2010 (company discount) :D. I'm a little leery about buying some software for this anyway, since the freeware utilities weren't any help.
Anyone care to offer some tips that I haven't tried yet? Thanks.
I have Google searched many threads, downloaded freeware utilities that supposedly will do this with ease and tried the built-in export feature of Windows Mail. Nothing has worked so far.
Here's what I have. I am running Vista Home Premium x64. I recently installed MS Office Pro 2010. I have been using Windows Mail that came with it for a long time. I would like to move/copy/export all mail from WM to Outlook 2010 and just use Outlook from now on. This is all on the same PC.
When I try to use the Export feature of WM and I select the Microsoft Exchange it gives a MAPI error. I can export the mail as messages (only other option) but that doesn't help with getting it over to Outlook.
I have tried doing this when Outlook was configured as the default email. I tried doing it with WM as the default email. I tried it with Outlook running in the background. I tried it without Outlook running in the background. I have configured Outlook to d/l mail from my server and it works fine for sending and receiving messages.
I ran across some commercial utilities that claim to do what I want but they cost more than the $9.95 price I paid for MS Office 2010 (company discount) :D. I'm a little leery about buying some software for this anyway, since the freeware utilities weren't any help.
Anyone care to offer some tips that I haven't tried yet? Thanks.
