Re: Saving mail and settings for new computer

I like the looks of David Majak's OEBackup, does it save all messages and
folders along with the settings??



"Steve Cochran" <scochran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That won't save the settings. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#6

steve

"PaulT" <Yahoo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just found an interesting site where it seems to have an easy way to save
all my e-mail messages,,, Does this look to be a reliable way to do so??

1. Email Messages:
From the Outlook Express menu select Tools | Options | Maintenance and
click the StoreFolder button. You see a dialog with the name of the
directory that has your mail files. If you look in that directory you
find files named after your mail folders and news groups. They all have a
.DBX suffix. Outlook Express keeps all messages in these database files.
If you make copies of these files regularly, you'll have a safe backup of
your OE mail.

Restore (if necessary): To restore the backup data, just copy it back to
the directory. You can selectively restore folders by just copying
specific files back. Alternatively, you can use OE's File | Import |
Messages feature to import one or more of the backup folders. Email
Account Settings

As far as we know, the procedure works for all kind of email: The regular
SMTP / POP3 based email, MAPI, IMAP or even the free Hotmail Account,
that is built into Outlook. For Hotmail, however, some messages and
settings might be stored only at the Hotmail server ( = somewhere at
Microsoft !) and not on your local PC.





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