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I'm guessing OE was replaced by Windows Mail? In XP I had my OE set to my pop3 account. In WM, I thought I set it up correctly, but can't access the saved mail. (Just my luck if the mail was saved to the HD.)
Anything I can check? Thanks.

Jon,
Windows Mail is the replacement for Outlook Express. Depends on who you use for your saved mail. If it was Hotmail Plus account or a normal POP account. If it was a pop account, sorry to say it most likely was saved on the hard drive of the PC.
"Jon" wrote in message

I'm guessing OE was replaced by Windows Mail? In XP I had my OE set to my pop3 account. In WM, I thought I set it up correctly, but can't access the saved mail. (Just my luck if the mail was saved to the HD.)
Anything I can check? Thanks.

Yep - Windows Mail is and has replaced Outlook Express. But feel free to get confused when Windows Live Mail comes out, then Windows Live Mail Desktop comes out - because Windows Live Mail won't work with Windows Mail, but the Windows Live Mail Destkop is specificially made to work with Windows Live Mail but it's much more advanced then Windows Mail - very strange.
Oh, to get your email messages back, pay me £1,000,000 in used notes to my offshore bank account... or in Windows Mail, Tools > Options > Maintenance > Store Folder > Change the folder to that of where the saved mail is :o)
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I'm guessing OE was replaced by Windows Mail? In XP I had my OE set to my pop3 account. In WM, I thought I set it up correctly, but can't access the saved mail. (Just my luck if the mail was saved to the HD.)
Anything I can check? Thanks.

Hi,
Very funny how Microsoft is planning to mock and make comparisons with Vista about how "crap" and low class Windows Mail is compared to Windows Live Mail...
I can already imagine MS is going to market Windows Mail very lowly...
And... they are mocking Windows Mail even it is in theory new and took 5 years to develop after OE 6!!!! compared to a "1 year old" product like Windows Live Mail
Very ironic
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

Yep - Windows Mail is and has replaced Outlook Express. But feel free to get confused when Windows Live Mail comes out, then Windows Live Mail Desktop comes out - because Windows Live Mail won't work with Windows Mail, but the Windows Live Mail Destkop is specificially made to work with Windows Live Mail but it's much more advanced then Windows Mail - very strange.
Oh, to get your email messages back, pay me £1,000,000 in used notes to my offshore bank account... or in Windows Mail, Tools > Options Maintenance > Store Folder > Change the folder to that of where the saved mail is :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Jon" wrote in message I'm guessing OE was replaced by Windows Mail? In XP I had my OE set to my pop3 account. In WM, I thought I set it up correctly, but can't access the saved mail. (Just my luck if the mail was saved to the HD.)
Anything I can check? Thanks.

yes, windows mail is it now. it is outlook express plus a built in ms news server and they now tie into mail the passport system. other then this it's the same thing as OE, but enhanced for vista GUI etc.
"Jon" wrote in message

I'm guessing OE was replaced by Windows Mail? In XP I had my OE set to my pop3 account. In WM, I thought I set it up correctly, but can't access the saved mail. (Just my luck if the mail was saved to the HD.)
Anything I can check? Thanks.

"AMDX2" wrote in message

yes, windows mail is it now. it is outlook express plus a built in ms news server and they now tie into mail the passport system. other then this it's the same thing as OE, but enhanced for vista GUI etc.

There are a lot more changes than that. For one that's really important, the DBX file format is gone and is replaced by a format that is much more robust and less apt to lose messages.
-- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, OE/WM Please reply in newsgroup.

"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

Yep - Windows Mail is and has replaced Outlook Express. But feel free to get confused when Windows Live Mail comes out, then Windows Live Mail Desktop comes out - because Windows Live Mail won't work with Windows Mail, but the Windows Live Mail Destkop is specificially made to work with Windows Live Mail but it's much more advanced then Windows Mail - very strange.
Oh, to get your email messages back, pay me £1,000,000 in used notes to my offshore bank account... or in Windows Mail, Tools > Options > Maintenance Store Folder > Change the folder to that of where the saved mail is :o)

That won't work.
The messages are now stored as individual eml files under a directory tree that matches the folder hierarchy in WinMail. So the inbox messages for instance are under StoreRoot\Local Folders\Inbox\*.eml where StoreRoot is defined by the value under "Store Root" under this registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail
and the default value is:
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\
And the files are hidden.
To recover messages from these directories, one needs only to drag the eml files overtop an OE or WinMail folder to incorporate them into the message store.
Playing around with changing the location of the message store or trying to copy files into its location is perhaps doable to some extent, but one can more appropriately incorporate the messages by dragging and dropping them or by using the File | Import capabilities.
Note that you can recover messages back into OE6 using this drag and drop method.
steve

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--: Original message follows :-- "Jon" wrote in message I'm guessing OE was replaced by Windows Mail? In XP I had my OE set to my pop3 account. In WM, I thought I set it up correctly, but can't access the saved mail. (Just my luck if the mail was saved to the HD.)
Anything I can check? Thanks.