Hi, Vernon.
I'd say Justin's comments are right on. But...
There's no "conversion". WinXP and prior have OE; WM cannot be installed on
WinXP. Vista has WM, and OE cannot be installed on it. Just as OE was
"built in" to WinXP, WM is "built in" to Vista. If you have Vista, then you
have WM - and vice versa. So there's no way to "convert" from one mail
program to the other on either platform.
But the transition might seem like a "conversion" for us users. ;^}
The only part of the transition that might be called a conversion is
Importing prior mail accounts and messages from OE. OE keeps all mail files
in a few folders. A thousand email messages in a single folder are stored
as a single large .dbx file. Corruption in a single message might make the
other 999 messages inaccessible, too. WM keeps each email in a separate
..eml file, so a thousand messages requires a thousand .eml files.
Corruption in one message won't affect the others. But if we want to keep
our old OE message store and use it in WM (and most of us do), then we must
Import that data and let WM "convert" it to the new database format. It's a
one-time project, but it might take several hours if you have a lot of
messages to bring forward. (Don't bother to import newsgroup posts; WM will
need to download those again from the news servers.) If you don't need or
want to import old emails, then forget this whole paragraph.
Once the messages are imported, using WM feels very much like using OE. WM
was extensively rewritten from OE, but most of the changes are "under the
skin". The user interface changes are evolutionary, not revolutionary.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate x64)
"vernon" <there@there> wrote in message
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> During or after conversion.
>
>
> 1. Some getting used to?
> 2. A snap?
> 3. A disaster?
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