Vista - Delete POP3 mail account imported from Outlook Express

I have been using Outlook Express for Hotmail and my Verizon.net POP3 e-mail.
When I installed Windows Live Mail, it imported my Verizon account and
folders without asking me. Also, when I open attachments in the Verizon
account in Outlook Express, the attachment opens in Windows Live Mail. If I
delete the Verizon account from Windows Live Mail, will the Verizon account
remain in Outlook Express? I don't want to lose mail and folders. Will the
attachments open properly in Outlook Express?

The Verizon account is still in OE.
Save any Verizon messages in WLM and delete the Verizon account in WLM.
You will not lose any mail in OE.
The only attachments that should open in an email program are email
messages.
Only one program can be the default for opening files.
You will have to change the file type to open with OE again.
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Ronald Sommer

"RDM" <RDM@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:25:00 -0700, RDM wrote:
Yes, but there is a hazard here: If Windows Live Mail has accessed the
Verizon POP3 account since it was installed, it will have downloaded email
from the account, and those messages will not be available in MS Outlook
Express. I would proceed with caution:

Open both MSOE and WLM at the same time (you can do that without a hitch).
Set both to "work offline". Compare the contents of the two accounts, and
delete any email in Windows Live Mail which is duplicated in MS Outlook
Express. When you are done, you should only have new messages in the WLM
account. Change the Verizon POP3 account server properties to not check the
account when WLM starts. Use the Maintenance tab to locate the WLM message
store. Close WLM.

At this point you can safely copy messages from the WLM message store
folders to your desktop. Only use copy; don't use move. Copy all of the .eml
files found *only* in the Verizon POP3 account folders to your dekstop. Now
open WLM. If you properly configured WLM to *not* check the Verizon POP3
account on start, you can now safely delete the Verizon POP3 account. This
will delete all of the account folders, and there contents, from the message
store; which is the reason for copying those messages to your desktop. (The
copy just protects the WLM indexing scheme; you want WLM to cleanly deal
with its message store.)

Now you can just drag all those .eml files from your desktop to any folder
in MS Outlook Express. Do that carefully, and you shouldn't lose any
messages.

The hazard is that WLM deletes the account folders when the account is
deleted, so you need to get copies out first.
You will need to reset your default email client to MS Outlook Express *and*
re-associate the .eml files, with MSOE. But, once you have done that, you
should be "good to go".

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

OLEXP: Unable to Open EML File Attachments in Outlook Express
(Fixing the EML File Association)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312355


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"RDM" <RDM@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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