The only way to accomplish this without installing Outlook is to use
whatever machine you have that DOES have Outlook installed on it to transfer
your messages and addresses from Outlook to Outlook Express, take the OE
..DBX files the transfer creates to your Vista machine, and import them.
Outlook MUST be installed and functional on the machine used to do the
transfer because neither Outlook Express nor Windows Mail have the ability
to access a .PST file, they use Outlook for this; without Outlook, you get
the MAPI error. Instructions for importing OE .DBX files into Windows Mail
are here:

http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#oe2wm
How do I back up my files and settings?

Hal
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"Rotorhead" <Rotorhead@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A6F6BECB-998D-4D08-B050-801386644F3F@microsoft.com...
> I should have also mentioned that I have the messages in a .pst file...
I'd
> rather not install outlook if possible...
>
> "Rotorhead" wrote:
>
> > I have a considerable number of e-mails in Outlook 2000 running under
XP.
> > Having just upgraded to Vista, is there any way to import them into
Windows
> > mail?
> >
> > I can still export them from another machine if I need to. When I
select
> > 'Import' in Windows mail, I get "Messages cannot be imported from the
MAPI
> > client"
> >
> > Suggestions?