I meant to answer this earlier. The rules shift to Unicode so you have to
fix that. Here's the basics that I posted back in December. The mail
folders you will have to respecify as they don't carry over.
Okay there are actually 4 issues, but I figured out two of them.
This is for a single rule at the moment. I'll try and program it so it
doesn't have to be done rule by rule.
First export the rule from the machine with OE:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Micro soft\Outlook
Express\5.0\Rules\Mail\002
where GUID is the Identity and this is rule 3
Then edit the reg file with Notepad.
Do replace for
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Micro soft\Outlook Express\5.0
with
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail
Then save the file.
Then the search strings have been changed to Unicode so set the cursor where
the Rule Criteria start. Then do a second replace until the end of the file
and search for
,
replace with
,00,
Then in the last line of each criteria add
,00
Then save.
Then create a mock rule in the registry with WinMail and close WinMail.
Then delete that mock key in the registry. Make sure the rule number in the
saved reg file matches that that you just deleted.
Then merge the file into the registry.
Open WinMail and go to Tools | Message rules and you see the new message
rule spelled out okay when you click on it, except for the folder name. You
will still have to specify the folder names again because those are coded
numerically, I think.
Anyway, that will work, but its a bit involved to do manually.
steve
"Mark Rae" <mark@markNOSPAMrae.net> wrote in message
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> "Mark Rae" <mark@markNOSPAMrae.net> wrote in message
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>
>> Has anyone successfully managed to export rules from Outlook Express and
>> import them into Windows Mail?
>
> Figured it out, as follows:
>
> Both Outlook Express and Windows Mail store the individual addresses in
> the rule objects as binary (DWORD) strings. If I added mark@markrae.co.uk
> and mark@markrae.com to a rule, the values would be stored in Outlook
> Express like this: http://www.markrae.net/OE.jpg
>
> That is, each individual address is separated by a 00, and there are three
> 00 values at the end of the string.
>
> However, in Windows Mail, the values would be stored like this:
> http://www.markrae.net/WM.jpg
>
> As you can see, there is an additional 00 value between each character.
>
> I strongly suspect that this is because I'm running Windows Mail on 64-bit
> Vista, whereas I was running Outlook Express on 32-bit WinXP Pro - either
> that, or it's Unicode...
>
> Therefore, although the mechanism of exporting and importing Registry keys
> will almost certainly work for 32-bit Windows Mail, it clearly won't for
> 64-bit Windows Mail, which is why I was getting the garbage.
>
> Hmm - I think I feel a utility coming on... ;-)
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