Store Root in Windows Mail/Live Mail

Hello,

I got a new laptop yesterday with the Vista OS. I was disappointed to find
that Outlook Express was gone. While not a supported configuration, I had
used Regedit to point the Outlook Express 'store root' on multiple machines
to a mapped network drive. This way all the machines would be looking at the
same set of folders and downloaded e-mails. Also, when messages downloaded
they got stored on the central drive and not to the PC I happened to be using.

Now, with Windows Mail the storage configuration is totally different.
There is still a Store Root but I can't map it to the XP machine's Outlook
Express folders. If I were to upgrade the XP machine to Windows Live Mail,
could I map the Vista machine's Windows Mail to that Store Root? Anyone try
this?

Thanks,
Jim

"turbojimmy" <turbojimmy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8920D205-77B0-4158-A750-EE7F8190B024@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I got a new laptop yesterday with the Vista OS. I was disappointed to
> find
> that Outlook Express was gone. While not a supported configuration, I had
> used Regedit to point the Outlook Express 'store root' on multiple
> machines
> to a mapped network drive. This way all the machines would be looking at
> the
> same set of folders and downloaded e-mails. Also, when messages
> downloaded
> they got stored on the central drive and not to the PC I happened to be
> using.
>
> Now, with Windows Mail the storage configuration is totally different.
> There is still a Store Root but I can't map it to the XP machine's Outlook
> Express folders. If I were to upgrade the XP machine to Windows Live
> Mail,
> could I map the Vista machine's Windows Mail to that Store Root? Anyone
> try
> this?


Windows Mail stores each message in its own EML file instead of having a DBX
file for each folder. Putting this Store Folder on a network drive is not a
sage thing to do.

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