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Import Between Outlook Express, Hotmail, and Outlook
- When eBay still used Microsoft's Passport, I registered an account through my Hotmail address. Today, I switched the eBay email address from Hotmail to my Pirillo one.
- Now I had all this eBay email sitting in my Hotmail account – and I wanted to get it into Outlook with the least amount of fuss. Windows Live Mail was no help (and a performance dog to boot), but you can access your Hotmail account through Outlook Express easily enough.
- I then tried to export my Hotmail messages through Outlook Express's data export tool – to no avail. It only wants to export items sitting in the default Inbox (not in any subsequent account inboxes, even though they may be selected at the time the feature is invoked). Lame.
- I tried dragging and dropping a message icon to the desktop, then into Outlook – or directly into Outlook – but it was in an incompatible format.
- The solution to the problem is simple: select all the messages in Outlook Express that you'd care to import into Outlook, then press CTRL+F to forward them to your email address. When you receive that message in Outlook, you'll see all those messages as separate attachments – ready to drag & drop directly into any Outlook folder of your choosing.
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10 Comments
Anonymous
April 28th, 2006
at 5:56pm
How did you manage to get Hotmail working with Outlook Express? I thought they disabled that years ago now?
Anonymous
April 29th, 2006
at 12:44pm
Call me stupid, but why not just set up Hotmail as another email account directly in Outlook and then drag and drop from the Hotmail folder in Outlook to your PST folder? Why the whole import/export routine?
Alicia
July 28th, 2006
at 7:45pm
Well, I think you should always have up to date email backups. I used to do it manually by saving the .dbx files, until I found Outlook Express Backup Genie that does it automatically at regular times.
I choused it over other because it can work with both MS Outlook and Outlook Express
Alicia
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August 7th, 2006
at 5:47pm
[...] http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/04/29/import-between-outlook-express-hotmail-and-outlook/Ouch. Seems like someone needs to fix this. [...]
Poco Forums :: View topic - transfering mail from hotmail ?
December 24th, 2006
at 10:15am
[...] Try this as an interface between Hotmail and Barca: http://www.freepops.org/en/ Or maybe this: http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/04/29/import-between-outlook-express-hotmail-and-outlook/ Hopefully it will work, I have no experience with it._________________Tomas [...]
sanz
February 19th, 2007
at 3:12pm
Re: “select all the messages in Outlook Express that you’d care to import into Outlook”. I thought we were going from Hotmail to Outlook Express?
George Kamyar
May 28th, 2007
at 3:26am
I’m trying to migrate from Outlook Express to Outlook, everything goes fine except the fact that all emails where I am the sender are imported into Outlook and stored with today’s date and this totally messes up my organization. If there is a trick to avoid this please let me know.
regards,
George
Gina Reed
June 20th, 2007
at 9:51pm
I updated from Outlook 2002 to Outlook 2007 when I bought a new computer with Vista. I synced my contact list from 02 to 07. When writing a new e-mail I use the To: box to bring up my contact list. If I select Jane Smith the name that goes into the To: box is the “display name “ Jane Smith(Jsmith@aol.com) not the “address”. The “display address” will not send. I must remove the Jane Smith(…..). If I make a new contact John Doe the display name is the same as the “address” Jdoe@aol.com . Outlook 2007 is using the “display name” from Outlook 2002 as the address instead of the “address”. Does this mean I have to manually go through each and every contact and change the “display name” to the “address”?
Stephen Charles
August 19th, 2008
at 5:49pm
I noticed that in Outlook 2007 I could print the list of emails in my Inbox is there any way to do that in Outlook Express?
Stephen Charles
August 19th, 2008
at 5:52pm
I noticed that in Outlook 2007 I could print the list of mail in the Inbox is there anyway that this could be done in Outlook Express