Hi - I'm no expert on this subject, but here's the way I understand it... Windows Live Mail is NOT a web based email service (that's what you want if you want to be able to use your email from any computer in the world). WLM is really just the successor to Outlook Express, and is based entirely on your hard drive - but you "can" download your web based email into it - but you can't easily get to your messages from any other computer. Microsoft still has Hotmail (now called Windows Live Hotmail I think), which "is" a web based service. But, after searching a lot, I can't find any way to upload your current OE email and folders into it. So you'd have to just start from scratch, afaik. What I would maybe recommend is that you open a Gmail account (it's totally free). Gmail appears to make uploading your OE messages into it as simple as dragging and dropping the folders. Once you do that, Gmail has many, many features to let you organize the messages any way you want. Plus, Gmail "is" a totally web based service, so all your mail is accessible from any computer. A couple caveats... 1. Gmail has a size limit, but it is huge - 7GB I think. So, unless you've got hundreds of thousands of OE messages, you should be fine. 2. Gmail has a bit of a learning curve. It treats message threads as "conversations", and it's a little tricky to use as first - it's not like most other email clients. But you'll catch on eventually.
Good luck, Donk On 4/9/2011 8:47 AM, ger_ila wrote: > Hi, I'm curently trying to change my email account from Outlook Express to > Windows Live Mail with the hope that I can then get my messages on any PC. > This is all on the same computer running XP Pro SP3. It is a bit more > confusing than I imagined it would be and I've somehow ended up with a > Hotmail account as well! My question is how to move all my old messages from > OE to WLM, or Hotmail so that they are accessible on whatever puter I'm on? > > > > ------------------------------------ > > If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please > feel free to contact me directly [email protected] Please do not post > personal issues directly to the group. > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to > [email protected] > > Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Internal Virus Database is out of date. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.426 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2692 - Release Date: 02/16/10 > 19:35:00 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [email protected] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [email protected] Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
