Re: Moving from 98 to XP - MSN Hotmail issue

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"Yasoo" wrote:

| We want to get archived email on a 98 Box to our new XP machine. We are
| using MSN8 and Hotmail on the XP box. We have upwards near 300GB of archived
| mail in a .dbx file created with MSN6 on the 98 box. How can we get that
| email to show up on the XP box? Can we drop the .dbx file in a particular
| folder and MSN8 will find it? Is there a way to import it?
|
| The closest solution we've found is sending it back to the Hotmail server
| from the 98 box and downloading it again on the XP box. This solution is
| impractcal because of the large number of emails (years worth) and the fact
| that this method changes the date of the emails (which is undesirable).
|
|
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