When you export into Outlook, you aren't given a choice where to put it -
they copy the layout of the LM mailbox. It's moved into the Outlook PST
file which is used by your Outlook profile. The default location is in the
outlook folder under app data. You can look for the path while in your
outlook profile- check either file, data file management or tools, accounts.

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"Urbane Tiger" wrote in message
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Thank you -

OK I export from Windows Live Mail using the
File-Export-Messages-Microsoft Exchange (the confirm dialogue does in
fact say MS Exchange and MS Outlook), I select the folders I wanted
exported - basically everything except some feeds, news stuff etc, I
expected to be asked where I'd like the output stored, but no -- it went
off with fast moving progress bars for a few minutes and ended -
gracefully.

I cant see anything in my documents folder, nor in WLMails Mail Store -
but I am not sure what it is I'm looking for.

I looked for pst's but Locate32 only finds two fairly small ones in
C:\Documents and Settings\myname\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\. Search Assist finds the same .pst's in the same
locations.

When I export in WLMail format, (ie .eml's) then I am asked for an output
folder name and then I get to select which folders, and then the fast
moving progress bars do there stuff and I get everything dumped into the
folder I specified. I ran a before after snapshot of my drives and I can
see where the exported data is written down to the specific sector.

When I export in Exchange format then as far as I can tell WLMail is not
writing anything, its reading its mail store but its not writing anything
according to the disk snap shots and looking at the file handles with
Process Explorer I can se anything that looks like file writes. and the
export to Exchange is quite a lost faster than the export to eml files -
because its not actually writing anything I suspect.

I'll shake the rattle over at m.p.w.live.mail.desktop and see if one of
those guys knows what the story is with export to Exchange.

Outlook as a browser : I think it's the word that worries some people -
browser. In the context of Outlook I see it as a transactor, whereas in
the context of the WordWeb applet I use - I see it as a finder. I
appreciate the attitudes of the corporate world, I was in it for long
enough - but I brike free, or rather they pensioned me off.

On the issue of long downloads etc, when I say long I mean several hours
over a flaky satellite link with a single stream, believe me you don't
want to disturb the browser. Here in the city I have 20Mps to the
exchange about 600m distance, nothings a problem. If I do do long
downloads over the sat link and I just have to do some browsing then I
just use a different browser.
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TUT

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forgotten this before." Steven Wright
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"Diane Poremsky {MVP}" wrote in message
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you'll want to export to exchange format - that is outlook. no idea why
they call it exchange, not outlook though.

browsing capabilities was added to outlook years ago when someone thought
it would be a good idea- then they discovered its not secure and
businesses wanted more control over employees browsing habits. they can't
remove the hooks because they need it for outlook today and folder
homepages but they do have it locked down some.

FWIW, I've never had problems disturbing downloads when I use tabbed
browsing.

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"Urbane Tiger" wrote in message
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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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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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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.