How do Outlook and Outlook Express relate?

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Looks like your account configuration is wrong. Normally where you currently see "172.16.1.60", you would see the name of a mail server. You need to check with your ISP and find out what SHOULD be there, and update your account information to specify the right things for SMTP and POP3 servers.

Hi Leo

I am using Outlook.

People tell me I don't need Outlook Express
installed when you want to install and use Outlook, but I have tried to do it as they say.

What am I doing wrong, because my version of Outlook (XP) complains and would not start without Outlook Express installed?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

Regards,
Francois Moller
Cape Town

Outlook Express is NOT required in order to run Outlook. I'd have to know the specific error message you're seeing to try and diagnose what might be causing the problem you're seeing.

Our company gets between 300 to 400 emails per day. We are currently using Outlook Express (OE) as the viewer on our back-up email server, and have taken advantage of the OE message rules feature to "filter out" postmaster and other repeated nusance incoming emails.

Do you know if macros can be used with OE? We not interested in elaborate/expensive software to use as an add-in or in place of Outlook or OE.

I have a better understanding of the differences between Outlook and OE from your article ("How do Outlook and Outlook Express relate? "), it was of great help.

BRH-Norcross, Georgia

Can I transfer all of my outlook express information into Outlook (Old emails. address book, etc?)

B Hamm: unfortunately OE cannot be extended, so there's no macro capability there. Look into it's rules processing though. Outlook has even more powerful rules facility that may be of use.

Dallas: check out the "File" menu, "Import and Export" item. That should let you import your mail and contacts.

I have been using Outlook Express errors repair tool for the past few months and LOVE it.
I've even recommended it to all my friends. Outlook Express more stable and secure than other programs.

My boss wants to transfer all his mail from Outlook 2002 to Outlook Express 6.0, is there any simple way to do that?

I've reinstalled XP and am trying to re-import the messages from my old OE inbox to my new "empty" OE inbox. The messages are saved on a disk, and are also copied on the new desktop. I can get about a third of my saved messages re-import to the new inbox, but that's it. I've tried several times and OE always stops importing at the same number of messages--roughly 2500 of 7500 messages total. Any ideas how to coax OE into importing all of them? I've just purchased a OE repair software, whose demo was able to extract some of the messages from the backup file, and I'm hopeful it can do the trick. But while I wait for that software to arrive, any ideas would be appreciated.

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