From where can I download Outlook Express 6?

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I don't know if this would be helpful to this thread, but I just came across a Website that posts OLDER VERSIONS of programs:

http://www.oldversion.com/

I think there is another 'use case' that I didn't see in your article (which is great, BTW). The case is you apply Windows XP updates and got IE7 thinking it would be cool (like everything from M$) but not knowing that it would kill your perfectly good OE installation. The answer still seems to be try WLM or Thunderbird (whatever that turns out to be). Best, /Tom

Thanks for the above. It's got me this far. My remaining questions about Windows Live Mail is if there is an inport function for contacts and history. Per the prior comment I looked for an import contacts function under 'add a contact' but I couldn't find it. Nor could I find any import for email history. Please tell me it isn't so. My current Outlook Express says it's broken, so I'm stuck.

I'm struggling to find an email program that, unlike OE, will request delivery receipts. I'm hoping Windows Live Mail will do that. But after downloading it, I have a major problem. Just as you said, "However when you fire up Windows Live Mail for the first time it does automatically import all your Outlook Express mail, contacts and settings." This creates an impossible situation for me. My OE folder has 2+ GB in it and my current system drive only has 200MB free space. I MUST start WLM *without* importing anything, change where email is stored, then *manually* import stuff. Could you please tell me how to do this?? Very important! Thanks!

I was hoping you could answer this question BEFORE I download Windows Live Mail and my OE is obliterated.
I have over 3500 contacts in my OE that are seperated into over 30 GROUPS.
if I download Windows Live Mail, will these contacts AND GROUPS stay in tact?
as you can understand, the prospect of regrouping over 3500 email addresses that I've been arranging/filing/grouping for over 5 years... makes me want to cry.
please help! my hotmail is no longer being downloaded in OE.
(does WLM also download gmail?)
(and what happens with my OE offline folders of 1000s of emails I have saved on my HD?)

thanks

I tried to set up my email account on a toshiba laptop with vista and I did not find outlook express, I found outlook and before I could use it I had to supply a registration number, which I don't have.

so much for email on vista.

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Outlook Express isn't included in Vista. It's replaced by
"Windows Mail" which is very similar.

OR you could read the article you just commented on a
download "Windows Live Mail" for free as well.

Leo

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Ok so I have XP Pro, IE6 and Outlook Express 6, then upgrade to IE7,,then wanted to have a spell checker funtion in the e-mail/OE6, so we installed Office 2007 (Word etc), --spell checker function does not work without a Word, Powerpoint or Excel program along with OE..(Office 07 includes Outlook) but we kept using OE6, however now our OE6 spelling check (tools/options/spelling/language)) only has a drop down for "French",nothing for Engish dictionary,, and in Office07, Word, are election under review/language-- default is English US...but there are those little "graphic abc/check marks next to french and spanish, we can get them to disappear,, think we should just setup Outlook and forget the OE6 for the future? What the difference between Outlook and Outlook express

Is there a way to import an OE6 message store into Windows Mail? On a new laptop running Vista, Windows Mail seems to offer an import feature. But as I attempt to browse and select either the OE6 dbx files or the default message store folder (i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\My Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{xxx}\Microsoft\Outlook Express) neither are recognized.

Since taking delivery of a new PC this week with Vista, its email alternative is quite clean looking and works well, except it doesnt have the handy 'identities' facility that OE had. Windows Mail can support multiple accounts, but does so in a clumsy way in my opinion. I am now actively looking for an alternative that supports multiple identities!

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