Crosspost to OE General.

The only way you could export the OE data to OL would be if both
applications were running on PC(new). IOW, you cannot import OE data from
PC(old) into OL running in PC(new).

Assuming PC(new) is NOT running Vista:

1. Back-up each OE identity on PC(old).
2. Create three (3) new OE identities on PC(new).
3. Import one (1) back-up set into one (1) of the new identities.
4. Open Identity1 and export to MS Outlook.
5. Repeat #4 for Identity2.
6. Repeat #4 for Identity3.

In summary:

OE/PC(old) > OL/PC(new) => No.

OE/PC(old) > OE/PC(new) > OL/PC(new) => Yes.

PS: Exporting /from/ OE to OL yields better results than importing /into/ OL
from OE. (Think about it.)

References:

Backup & Restore OE Data
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx <=includes info on Windows Mail in Vista

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5
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OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...xpress.general
OL-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...utlook.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)


Subhas wrote:
> The situation is as follows;
> I would like to move contents from one PC(old) to another PC(new).
> The old pc uses outlook express and the new PC uses MS Outlook 2003.
> The old pc has 3 different outlook express identities. Each identity has
> email categorized into folders within the inbox. I would like to move all
> 3
> of these identities along with there emails/address books to the new PC. I
> would also like to preserve the custom made folders within each identities
> inbox.
> Outlook express does not include the option to export into a .pst file,
> for
> easy import/export to another machine. Instead I see dbx files which
> cannot
> be imported into outlook 2003.
> How would I go about doing this?