As Outlook is provided by Microsoft as well as Windows Mail is also given by Microsoft still both email apps are different from each other such as Windows Mail is default email app of Windows Vista Operating System while Outlook is a part of MS Office Suit. Both programs support different file formats which do not support any similarity.
Vista Mail is upgraded version of Outlook Express while MS Outlook supports its self-upgraded versions. Microsoft Outlook has many advance features which are not available in Windows Mail.
Since Windows Mail saves email files in EML messages and Outlook does not supports opening of these files directly; you need to convert & move files of Windows Mail into Outlook PST format one by one.
For Windows Mail to MS Outlook migration there is no direct method available neither you can convert multiple emails in batch. The possible methods through which you can convert Windows Mail to MS Outlook have been described below:
With this method you can export mails from Windows Mail and then import it into MS Outlook. In this method only messages saved in Windows Mail will be imported. Account settings aren't transferred. Following are the steps:
"This will export messages from Windows Vista Mail to Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange". Click 'OK'
Method 3. - > is using Import \ Export option of Outlook. Following are the instructions to import Windows Mail messages to Outlook:
Manual conversion allows single email conversion again and again which makes it annoying. Perfect conversion process should have liability to convert bulk email from Windows Live Mail to Outlook along with intact properties.
Converter tools are powerful applications designed with such technicalities to convert bulk Windows messages to Outlook. Keeping Email properties, attachments and attributes are assured to transfer with email data during the conversion.
For sure Manual conversion is free solution to move Windows Mail to Outlook. But it export folders one by one from Windows Mail to pst then import those files into Outlook PST format manually which makes the overall process slow and time consuming. It might be risky for loosing data. So, the better option for converting emails from Windows Vista Mail to Outlook is a third party converter tool that is designed to convert multiple emails from one file format to other without any complication.
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail
By using the mentioned path of Vista Mail, you can go with the message store location of Windows Mail. The converter program will provide complete result for conversion. It has several features which are –
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