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Migration from Windows Live Mail to Mail (Windows 10), inadequate provision for transfer of stored mail

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Archived post from May 5, 2016. Product: Windows Live Mail – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on May 5, 2016

The advice I've just received (if I want to keep and have access to my stored emails which I do) is to create new folders in Outlook.com and transfer the stored mails from WLM to those new folders.  I have 4GB of stored mails in over 800 folders, which would be an enormous task to undertake, even if all all the mail came only via Outlook.  WLM can handle multiple email accounts and I have five.  The stored mail might be from any of them.

It seems wholly unreasonable to have to do all this.  It would take months to do it manually.

Microsoft have developed this latest gizmo which I didn't ask for.  WLM is a perfectly adequate tool for me and now they are going to remove WLM functionality and I have no wish or time to undertake this massive task which has just dropped out of the sky.  My questions are:

  • Will they please develop a tool to allow this transfer to be automated?
  • The guidance only refers to stored Outlook emails, please extend it to include other emails within that same storage?

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