Thanks for the feedback, BTW I did not do much head scratching - I looked,
I could not see, so I asked for guidance.

Re : Migration,

WLMail can export messages in Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Windows Live
Mail formats, the latter is the .eml format mentioned in my OP. The only
import formats I can see in Outlook are Outlook Express and Eudora, I'm
surprised its such a sparse list. WLMail supports importation of Exchange,
Outlook, OE, Windows Mail and its own formats (no non MS formats, but all
the MS formats of which I am aware). Are there any addons that will read
Exchange format messages into Outlook..

With respect to accounts, I can do those by hand no need for import there.
For Contacts WLMail can produce .vcf's and Outlook can import vcf's - but
one at a time, is there a bulk import for vcf's - the one at a time works
fine, but it's a bit tedious.

Re Browser

Firstly, Outlook invoked Firefox "out of the box", I did not have to do
anything to make that happen. That's because Outlook invokes the default
browser, which is exactly what it should do -- I wish all apps were as well
behaved in this regard.

I get quite a lot of emails that require the completion of a simple
transaction over HTTP. For example, my mail service provider sends a
message when they quarantine a suspected spam item; the message has a link
to their spam filter login page, I enter my id and password whereupon the
item header is displayed, I can elect to move it to my inbox, delete it, or
blacklist the sender and/or domain and then delete it.

I'd like to conclude the transaction within the context of Outlook. Which
in fact I can, RightClick-CopyLink on the link, move mouse to Document
Location, RightClick-Paste, hit Enter - bingo the page is right there in
front of me. I was wondering if I could get Outlook do that with a
LeftClick, rather than invoking my browser. Firstly the browser may not be
running, which means I have to wait for it to load, perhaps wait while it
installs some extension updates, decide whether or not I want to restore
yesterdays session, by which time I've forgotten why I am where I am..
Alternatively the browser might be in the middle of a large non restartable
download from a site that forbids download managers, in that circumstance
I'd prefer not to disturb the browser in order to deal with a potentially
junk email.

As for Outlook as a web browser, it is not one nor should be used as
one

That begs the question, why did MSFT put hooks to the Trident layout engine
into Outlook, why did they make Outlook, HTML and HTTP aware, why did they
make Outlook capable of hosting Flash and Silverlight and goodness knows
what else, and why did they endow Outlook with a Web toolbar? I suggest
they did all that so that fools like me could use a browser from within
their email client. After all Opera and Seamonkey do a mail client in their
browsers, so why shouldn't MSFT do a browser in their mail client - it
actually make more sense to me, than the mail in a browser trick

I don't mean any offence, but I suggest if looks like a browser, smells like
a browser, and walks like a browser, then it probably is a browser. Albeit
not one in which I'd go surfing, but for a quick interaction, resulting from
a link in an email.- even by hand I'll use Outlook's built in browser in
preference going into a fully fledged browser.
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TUT

"Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your
foot on first." -- Frederick Wilcox
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"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" What@ever wrote in message
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Outlook cannot read .eml files. What export options does WLM have that are
compatible with Outlook?

As for Outlook as a web browser, it is not one nor should be used as one.
If you are asking how to make FF the default browser when links are
clicked in Outlook, Control Panel-Add/Remove Programs-Set Program
Access and Default.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Urbane Tiger asked:

| How can I import ".eml" files into Outlook 2007, this is the format
| in which the Windows Live Mail client keeps mail messages.
|
| Can I get Outlook to bring up it's browser when I click on a link in
| a mail item. My default browser is Firefox, and that's not going to
| change.
|
| Ideally I'd like the built in browser (which I appreciate is in fact
| the IE engine) be used, with an option via the context menu to open
| the link in the default browser, or better yet a menu of the
| installed browsers - which in my case would be IE8, Firefox3,
| Opera9.5 and Maxthon2.1.2.