This is my first go with Win 10 on a Lenovo Ideapad. I'm using my toshiba/Vista HP to get online still.
I am migrating from WinMail. I have the WinMail folders I want to keep saved. I want to load them onto the Win10 email client but it won't let me past adding an account. As soon as I gave it the email and password it tried to go online and would not let me go further. Now it won't even open a new account window when I click add account. It goes to a grey window and then reverts to add account after a minute.
I have years worth of email saved on the server so I wish to load (import) the inbox with the emails I already have before going online to prevent it from downloading years worth of emails I already have.
Any help?
This thing virtually crawls too its an i5 7200 CPU and a 1T5400rpm HDD. !?!?
OK I've been farting around trying to navigate to an open email client. Still no luck I did discover something though. I had chosen the "Mail" option in the all apps tab and from the larger area with a bunch of stuff that pops up when I hit the MS key. That is what I was signing up with in my previous post. While I was scrolling around I opened "Outlook" and I added my email and password there and got pretty much the same result. It stopped dead because it could not go online.
I guess I want to know how to open the email client in win10 without going online?
How can I set up my Outlook email account in win 10 without going online?
It keeps trying to go online then stopping once I put my email and password into the spaces for it. I want to get all the way to the open client so that I can access the menus and properties etc.
I want to be able to import my existing email from Windows live Mail before it goes online so I don't have to deal with thousands of emails being downloaded from the server.
One problem solved one to go. I figured out how to manually set up Outlook 2016.
Manually set up email account in Outlook 2016
1. Open outlook 2016 click next
2. Choose yes click next
3. Choose “Manual setup or additional server types” It is in bottom left corner. Next
4. Choose “POP or IMAP” Next
5. Fill out form.
6. Choose “more settings” new window opens with tabs to finish server settings.
7. Deselect “automatically test connection when next is clicked” click next
8. Finish or add another account.
Now it is open but when I go to import the files it is not working. The Import and Export Wizard opens a window with the preselected "Import from another program or file" When I click next I get two choices "Comma Separated Values" and Outlook Data File (.pst)
The files I exported from Windows Mail ver 6.0.6000.16386 are .eml files. Is there a work around I can do? I do not recall choosing Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Windows Mail.
Edit-The reference to the export window in my previous post is to the export function in Outlook on the other machine. This post is about the export function in Windows Mail.
OK doing more searching I found some folks trying to sell of give away apps to do this. I am trying to transfer my Windows Mail (not windows live mail) .eml messages to outlook.
So in Windows Mail (WM) I click file, export, messages, then when it offered "select program" I chose Microsoft Exchange this time instead of WM and clicking it opened a window with this message
"This will export messages from Windows Mail to Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange"
When I click on OK I get an error message with the red circle X reading "The export could not be performed. An error occurred while initializing MAPI."
I discovered I have outlook 2000 on this Vista HP machine. I opened it and when I choose "import export" from the file menu I get an error message; "An error occurred while attempting to open the Windows Address Book. Unable to find the WAB DLL."
IDK what you are talking about. Outlook 2016 seems to be the email client on Windows 10 am I wrong?
The goal here is to transfer my Windows Mail (not windows live mail) folders into the email client on the Windows 10 machine.
So what is the email client on Win 10 and how can I set it up manually?
Secondarily how do I turn Outlook off now that I have it set up?
I am doing this offline on the new machine. I am try to avoid connecting it until I have it set up in the way I want. As I recall it would not let me finish setting up the account on the "mail" link I clicked in the apps menu because it could not go online.
Update
Progress is being made.
I was able to manually set up an email account in "mail" on the win 10 system.
Steps; Choose add account, scroll down to choose Advanced from there you can select the type of account (me POP3) and on the following screen enter your settings. Once you click Sign in it told me I was successful and closed.
Now I'm stuck again as when I re open mail it still opens to the "First things first let's add your account settings.
I have listened. I want a normal email client that downloads to my machine and I control. I should not have to go through Microsoft to get my email. This should not be a problem.
I found videos showing how it works and I did everything right exactly as I described here, the program is not responding properly. It does everything right as far as setup then it stops working. The ready to go link is supposed to be there in a highlighted state so I can click it under the add account link when I finish setup. Instead the window closes and does nothing once I choose sign in.
It is updating for the second time right now. Anyway once its done updating I think it does this 3 or 4 times first time out if it does not work I have to find out how to make a complaint about the OS being corrupted.
I did not uninstall anything. The OS came corrupted. An update seems to be what was missing. They also saw fit to change my privacy settings to gain more access.
Is this going to be a regular event? Am I going to have to spend 30 minutes each time I want to do something private to make sure MS has not altered my settings first?
Where are the file folders for this email client which apparently does not have a name to sow even more confusion? They are not in the same place as on Vista.
I found a way to handle the issue. I switched to Thunderbird (TB) email client. The way to avoid download of all the email was to go to my email server (sign into the ISP account) and create a new folder to transfer the contents of the inbox to. Then I let TB connect and it works normally. Not all ISP's allow this on one of my ISP accounts I had to delete the contents of the inbox. I have them saved elsewhere.
The other part of the fix is to create a folder under local folders in TB. Then open the folder containing the .eml files and select them and drag/drop them into the new folder. Do this in small groups to make sure all of them are moving. That way you can list the ones that failed to transfer and work on that later. Added benefit here in TB they display normally unlike how they are scattered random and the titles and dates replaced with random strings of numbers/letters if you take them from WinMail and drop them in a new folder on your desktop.
There is a solution of sorts for that problem. Right clicking the far left column with the random numbers identifying the email gives a drop window, select more and another window opens with loads of choices. In that if you select "subject" the subject of the email will appear in the far right column. IDK why but you cannot get the date of creation or receipt to appear reliably. Hope that helps anyone else in my boat.
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