How do Outlook and Outlook Express relate?

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Leo, thanks for your comments about installing outlook. I have tried everything and still cannot get outlook to send or receive mail... stuck. have even been onto microsoft support... I must be short of the grey matter. Thank you anyhow

layout of your blog is really cool!
by the way I hate Outlook, and use only Express.

For anyone else that comes along via a Google search...

Outlook 2000 doesn't seem to support IMAP very well/if at all. After using it for years with my POP accounts, I've had to recently switch to OE in order to work with my new IMAP account. OE is fine -- except I miss having calendar and better contact mgmt integrated into my mailer. So presently, I'm forced to use both of them.

I'm too poor to upgrade to Outlook 2003/XP. But I am beginning to seriously consider moving to OpenOffice or one of the other free/cheap Office clones.

FWIW: openoffice does not include a mailer / PIM. If that's all you're looking to replace, you may need to look elsewhere. I have played some with open office and have been reasonably impressed, but noticed the lack of an outlook equivalent right away.

Leo

Outlook express is much easier.

How to configure Outlook Express

Can Outlook and Outlook Express be used on two different pc's to access (read and pull in) the same emails on one POP3 account.

Sure. Just make sure that one (or both) have the advanced setting "leave message on server" set. If you do that for both, you'll have to manage deleting the files on server somehow (there are options). If you do it only on one, then make sure that one always reads email *first*, as the second will remove the messages from the POP3 server.

This later scenario is what I use when travelling, where I'm reading mail on another machine than I do at home. When I return home, I have one download that gets all the mail again.

Leo

I have been using OE. I just installed Outlook 2003. Is there a way to transfer ALL of my folders and subfolders with their messages intact over to Outlook 2003. What seems to happen is that the messages (or at least some of them)come over but not the folders

Not quite sure what to tell you. I just verified an OE to Outlook2003 import that included subfolders and all worked as expected. Are there any other common threads to the emails that might be missing? Do you have your view in Outlook set such that everything is displayed?

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