You read my post?
In OE you export msgs to OL
You *stop using/starting OE*, and/or *delete the mail accounts in OE*,
otherwise if you open OE it will receive your mail

Internet Options doesnt necessarily define which app will receive your mail,
generally it defines which app will open if you want to send mail from a
link or file

"soreub" wrote in message
...
Thank you DL. I just spoke to microsoft about upgrading directly to
Outlook
2007. My major problem in OE6 is I have thousands of emails. (too many
for
that program, I assume) Whenever it compacts now, it copies my emails to
the
recycle bin and causes an enormous amount of problems in general on my
computer(freezing, among others, not recognizing commands) So...........I
was
told to use the outlook program instead. Hence it's Office 2002. I have
xp
operating system and my cpu is only two years old. I also cannot create
shortcuts to my desktop anymore from the web.............probably
unrelated.

I've even tried to let future emails go directly into Outlook 2002. I set
Internet Options, Internet Programs (email) to Outlook. It ignores it and
continues to send from oe6.

As I don't really recall how to do all this import and export of dbx and
pst
files, I figured if I bought 2007 outlook or office, they could talk me
through it. Again, I see outlook 2007 has its own issues. I'm not sure
what
else to do.

"DL" wrote:

You export your msgs OE to OL (I assume OL is setup on your PC)
You can then within OL Import your account settings and addresses
Once OL is set up stop using OE, or delete the accounts, as if you open
OE
it will receive your mail

OL2002 is out of support lifecycle, the OL2002 data file has a 2gb size
limitation though problems can occur above 1.6gb
OL2003 and above, using the new unicode format data file does not have
this
size limitation
OL2007 is the latest version

In OL use the Archive option, you can create mutiple Archives, ag
Archive2005, Archive2006 etc and if you require have them all open
within OL
NB if you use OL2002 and then update to 2003 or 2007 there are some
further
hoops to go through

"soreub" wrote in message
...
I have way too many emails in oe6. I need to transfer all my emails
and
use
Microsoft Outlook 2002 as my email client. I don't know how to do
this.
Every time it asks to compact messages, it puts copies of my emails in
the
recycle bin. I am also missing all my sent messages from the year
2006.

Also should I update Microsoft Office 2002 to Outlook 2003?

Help.