But the message rules do transfer perfectly-just as they do in my current mail client of choice-Thunderbird. For whatever reason, some aspects of the account settings do not transfer exactly. But I have always preserved my message rules by copying the entire contents of the Outlook Express folder. Once again if all you copy is the DBX files, you are correct.
Perhaps you are confusing Outlook Express with Outlook where the rules are stored in the PST file.
They are stored in the registry under the key The Outlook Express message rules are not stored in the Outlook Express folder. I'm so curious, I may go back to my Windows 7 system and try that experiment just to see. You don't suppose that when you run Outlook Express for the first time, that it places something in the registry automatically? Just as (for example) if you some how delete the inbox.dbx file, the file will be restored when you run Outlook Express. Now of course I always closed Outlook Express and rebooted the system before and after I made such major changes to the new installation. The reason I ask is that when I did this, I always seemed to get the rules copied over perfectly. I am wondering if you ever tried copying the entire Outlook Express folder. Subject: Re: Outlook Express and Windows 7? Original Message - From: "Ron Canazzi" This articleĪnd many other similar results in a quick Google search will basically tell you the same thing. Although you don't have to take my word for it. Outlook Express creates a new identity the first time you run it and that includes default registry entries, but those default entries would not include custom rules which you may have had in another installation. dbx files which are mail folders and have nothing to do with the message rules. Indeed I have done this many times, but there is nothing in the Outlook Express store folder except.
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