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33 Responses to “Outlook 2007 email to Windows Live Mail easy guide”

1. Alex says:

   March 26, 2011 at 2:51 pm

   Thanking you very much! Took me a long time to find this page but it was worth it. Very good instructions!
2. john brown says:

   May 18, 2011 at 9:25 am

   Thanks for this. I was really struggling.For a novice like me it still wasn’t easy but I got there in the end. Much appreciated
3. Shalabh Jhalawad says:

   May 20, 2011 at 3:07 am

   Hey,

   Can you help me with shifting my mail account settings from Outlook 2007 to Windows Live Mail 2011
4. Ale says:

   May 20, 2011 at 3:57 am

   Hi indi..

   after having spent the entire day on this, I am about to give up definetely.. I let you imagine how I feel..
   So, you have been my first resource at the beginning, you are really my last one now.

   These are the coordinates:
   - No Outlook on my machine
   - An old folder containing a .pst comprehensive file
   - A trial of a PstViewer installed and working for the next 15 days (I got my emails..), in theory, it allows passing by the old .pst Outlook-related to a store of .msg corresponding files
   - the MailStore program already running (which actually I am not sure I have understood thoroughly..), in theory to arrive to EML LiveMail-supported format and finally land on LiveMail itself

   Something doesn’t work, I feel I collapsed at the very last meter..

   I stand here (as quite an expert in the end,) to provide every further useful detail.. just if you’ll give a sign…

   Goodbye!
5. indi says:

   May 21, 2011 at 3:38 pm

   @Shalabh – Hi, I don’t have spare time I’m sorry, but if you follow the guide here it should work.

   @Ale – Thanks for your message and sorry to hear it has been a struggle.
   The purpose of using mailstore is to grab your PST file and convert it to to a format that WLM can read. After that it can then be removed.
   So, you got your emails in the end?
6. Ale says:

   May 24, 2011 at 11:33 pm

   Hi indi, thank you for your sympathy..
   “Direct PST file archiving is not available in MailStore. PST file archiving is a feature of MailStore Server, the e-mail archiving software for commercial use. To learn more about bla bla bla…”
   This was the problem.
   News: I overcame it with friendly support, actually using Linux to get MBOX messages from the original PST file.
   Then MailStore converted it in EML messages.
   Or, at least that should have been done.
   So, why doesn’t damn LiveMail recognise them..?!

   I will be forced to buy PSTViewer Pro in the end.. as freewares like SysTools Outlook PST Viewer don’t make a good job in organising my files..
   So sad..
7. Ale says:

   May 25, 2011 at 12:04 am

   ..And indi, you deserves full details. The message is “impossible to find any message or files could be used by another application..”
   I swear, any app or program is running..
   Greetings
8. Ale says:

   May 30, 2011 at 3:23 am

   Got it!
   For better for worse..
9. CMc0 says:

   June 16, 2011 at 5:40 pm

   Thanks, I was just about to give up, this worked very well.
10. Leppy says:

    June 19, 2011 at 1:29 am

    Thanks, your instructions were a big help especially the one about dragging the messages into WLM. The import function did not work for me. I’m using Windows 7 and Outlook 2010(trial version).
11. Thomas says:

    June 21, 2011 at 12:54 pm

    Thanks–this worked perfectly for me. I was transferring from Outlook 2007 on an old computer to Windows Live Mail on a new computer. I got the message “no files or another program had locked . . .” So I closed the window of the USB drive and there were my messages in WLM in an “Imported files” folder. All I had to do was drag and drop them from there into my WLM folders. Saved me tons of time, thanks!
12. Jiten says:

    July 5, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    Thank you very much for such valuable post.

    Though both the products are from Microsoft no import export feature. I really disppointed with microsoft product. Microsoft could have uploaded such tools for their product.

    Thank you again.
13. marie says:

    July 11, 2011 at 10:35 am

    I was shocked that my outlook file couldn’t be imported into windows live mail..thank you very much! I now have my emails and folders back.
14. Maxim says:

    August 1, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    Hi,
    Thanks for your link to http://www.mailstore.com/en.
    But because this particular target URL will expire for technical reasons it would be great if you could change it to: http://www.mailstore.com

    Thanks a lot,
    Maxim
15. indi says:

    August 2, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    @Maxim, done as requested.
16. Paul says:

    September 14, 2011 at 11:02 pm

    I have tried using mailstore to get my outlook emails however everytime i go through archive it advises it has completed with errors.

    Not sure what to do next.

    Thanks
    Paul
17. Tammy says:

    September 20, 2011 at 2:22 am

    Understand all instructions up until you are ready to import into WLM. Please let me know where you are finding “FILE”, import mail in WLM? Using IE 8. My drop down IE 8 “file” menu does not offer this option, where in WLM are you finding a “file” option with an import, mail option? Thank you!
18. Tammy says:

    September 20, 2011 at 2:34 am

    I found the answer to my own question. In the desktop version of WLM, click on “show menu bar” from the menu icon located on the right hand top area of WLM. You can then see the “FILE” option. Thank you.
19. Harikrishnan A says:

    September 26, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    Thanks alot .. works excellent.. saved a weeks time
    of mine from getting wasted.. !!!

    Had to move mails in WLM after importing..

    Thanks..

    Hari
20. Don says:

    September 28, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    This is exactly what I needed for
    getting email messages stored in an Outlook pst file into Windows Live Mail.

    Thanxs!
21. Gary80 says:

    October 28, 2011 at 12:33 am

    You are a life saver, shamefuk thing is Microsoft doesn’t know what to do
22. Elstevio says:

    November 3, 2011 at 1:16 am

    You saved my life.
    Took about 6 hours to archive.45,000 items!!
    It’s all there now in WLM

    Thank you so much
23. Dale says:

    November 6, 2011 at 5:52 am

    This worked like a charm for a backed up copy of old Outlook files after my computer crashed 3 months ago. MS could not help me even after I bought Norton 360 to reopen the files and downloaded a copy of Outlook 2010. MS was clueless and hard to work with!!! The Norton guy got the files to open up this morning and your directions got them into WLM. Thanks a ton.
24. jo says:

    December 26, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    This doesn’t work if all you have is a PST file. MailStore Home does not allow you to import a PST file in the free version – surprise surprise.
25. Cas Radford says:

    December 29, 2011 at 7:06 am

    Best information there is to get info out of Outlook and into Windows Live Mail. Mine are on different machines so I had to copy the archives to another laptop but all went well.
    Now all I need is a better explanation of the setup within WLM!
26. Ceecee Mohazin says:

    January 3, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    Please let me know this windows outllok can work on my hand set ” Samsung Galaxy Fit 5670 ”

    Hope your early reply on my enquiry.
27. indi says:

    January 3, 2012 at 9:32 pm

    @Cas – yeah WLM can be a bit daunting. I personally don’t like it, but may put a basic guide up if I have some time to write it.
    @Ceecee – Not sure, sorry. Haven’t got access to one of those handsets to try it.
28. Pamela says:

    January 7, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    THANK YOU SO MUCH! I had managed to do this 6 months ago, in a different (harder) way, but I totally forgot! Now I found your post and everthing went downhill… great contibution
29. Stu Kopelman says:

    February 14, 2012 at 1:37 pm

    Created Exported EML file from Outlook 2010. Going to File/ Import…it only gives me three options in Live Mail: Feeds, Cookies, and Favorites. I had hoped to import the Inbox, but does not offer this.
30. JPC says:

    February 16, 2012 at 4:33 am

    There is a much easier way (if you still have Outlook available).
    - Add your Windows Live email account to Outlook.
    - Open a folder from your Outlook account (e.g. your inbox)
    - Ctrl+A to select all email
    - Ctrl+C (to copy) or Ctrl+X (to cut)
    - Open the folder in your Windows Live Mail account where it needs to go
    - Ctrl+P to paste all email in that folder.
    - All email is now uploaded to Windows Live Mail (will take some time). Do this with all email folders that need to be migrated.

    You can do the same thing with your calendar items and your contacts. For contacts, be aware that Outlook has much more fields to store information then Windows Live Contacts and some fields that are available in both systems don’t match.
31. Kamal says:

    March 2, 2012 at 11:26 pm

    Simply great!

    Thank you indeed indi!
32. Kamal says:

    March 2, 2012 at 11:32 pm

    @JPC,

    Ctrl+P option is not working for pasting in WLM. How do you do it?
33. Serge Soucy says:

    May 2, 2012 at 4:10 am

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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