I feel sure there must be one or two techies who can help me…..please.

I am looking at a new laptop purchase and possibly going to Windows 7. Currently I use Vista 32 bit, which has Windows Mail. I realise I will have to download Windows Live Mail for an email program (if I stick with a Microsoft one) but can I then import my email accounts as I have done in the past. I have a few that I have picked up over the years and all are used at some point. In the past it’s been as simple exports for each one and a re-import when I got my next ‘pooter. I doubt it will be that simple, but can it be relatively easily done? is it easy to export my email adress' from my Windows Mail and re-import them to Windows Live Mail?

Also I use Outlook 2003 for my contacts and calendar and wonder if I can install this on a Windows 7 machine too. I hope to be able to sync with it using my WiMo phone.

Any help gratefully received.

Should be ok

Outlook 2003 if fine on Win7

Why not use that to manage your email as well, it works perfectly well with Pop3 and SMTP based accounts.

Windows 7 is really good, lots of sublte changes that improve working and it seems more stable, remembers the location of network drives etc

Outlook 2003 works fine with it so don't worry about Windows live mail (though it will import all your settings just fine)

Domhnall

Livemail with win7 is an easy setup for e mail accounts .

For most ISP it just aske for your e mail address ,password and how you're known .I've got a ntl/yahoo/btinternet /totalserve accounts and only one that needs more than that info is totalserve .Yahoo mutters something about not working with livemail -but it does .It's got junk mail filtering too.

Thanks everyone. I want to use the mail programme as I like the idea of having a separate program to look after all this stuff, besides it can check every few minutes to see if I have any new mails in any of my 5 email address’. That’s why being able to import the settings is useful.

Thanks everyone. I want to use the mail programme as I like the idea of having a separate program to look after all this stuff, besides it can check every few minutes to see if I have any new mails in any of my 5 email address’. That’s why being able to import the settings is useful.

Try Livemail -think you'l find it's a step into the future - no long setups - with most ISPs -you are asked for -

E-mail address

Password .

How you want your name to be sent

That's all - only ever found totalserve accounts want more info .

Thought I was heavy on accounts -six plus Mrs's -we share the common login -makes life easier .

I would like to be able to import the ‘iaf’ files as 2 of my address’ are with Tinyworld and they don’t usually auto-configure, at least not since Tiscali took them over and who knows what might happen now that Talk-Talk seem to be running Tiscali on the web in the UK???