I need some help, i have thousands of emails on my Outlook 2007 and i have have folders that also have emails in. In total i have around 20,000 emails. Now Outlook 2007 removes the emails when it downloads the messages from the server, i have now disabled this but i need to transfer all the emails back onto the server so that when i login to my email address i have access to all my emails where ever i go.
I need someone to tell me the best way of doing this please. I have now setup my email to go through IMAP. I dont want to transfer it all via Outlook as i have tried this and it keeps freezing and takes around 12hrs just to do 1 folder. I do not have root access to the server, I’m on a shared package at 1and1.co.uk
OK, sorry to butt in… I’m going to Win 7 before long and it doesn’t have Outlook Express which I like, so I guess Thunderbird is my only Outlook Express like option
Bill and them should sell Outlook Express as a stand alone program, but maybe they don’t need any more money
Do you have to transfer all the old mail back to the server? If so, unless your server has some kind of import function you’re probably stuck with using your mail client to transfer the messages back. I remember doing a moderately large drag & drop imap local to server transfer and you’re right, it’s slow. The mail server has to do quite a bit of work to process each incoming message and get it properly indexed in it’s message store.
I have a linux mailserver using dovecot and maildir, and I have successfully transfered entire user Maildir directory structures as a file transfer (put them in a tarball and copied to the other server, restored the directories and manually edited a couple control files in the directory and got all the messages transferred that way.
I don’t know of any equivalent method in windows though.
Who uses desktop email clients in 2011? No real point in outlook express when you’ve got gmail.
What you want to do with Outlook is setup a separate mail account for the imap and then copy all the mail over using the UI. Works great, pretty easy to keep your folders, etc. Do it from a fast connection.
But that’s because I have 5 or 6 e-mail accounts and a catch all setup at work for our test environment.
As Doug said, you can drag your old e-mails to an IMAP folder. It’ll take time (do it in steps of say, 50 emails at once), but after that you’ll have them all on the server.
