Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / July 2005

My client has migrated from OS 9 to OS X, and needs to preserve his
contacts from OE 5. His OE addressbook contains a few (3-4) individual
addresses, and a number of mailgroups containing various numbers of
email addresses (avg 50-100 ea.).

Howdy.  I'm not very computer savy, so please take that into account if
you post a helpful reply.  I use an iMac with system 9.2.2.  My current
Outlook Express seems to be 5.02 (but I'm not sure if that was the
version that I had just a bit ago).  I seemed to have lost all of my

I've got a 600-meg file full of 3.5 years of e-mails written and
received in MS Outlook (not Outlook Express) for OS9.x, and I've been
utterly unable either to import this mail (it's not a .MBOX) into
Entourage 2004 or to convert it into an importable format with various

How can i convert/transfer my full message database (one big "Messages"
file, cca. 681 MB) from MAC OS9 Outlook Express 5.02 to WinXP SP2
Outlook Express 6.00?

I've been using Outlook Express 4.5 with Mac OS9.1 for a long time and
have never had this problem before.
Since yesterday, 2 out of the 6 mail accounts I had in OE 4.5 have
disappeared!

For years, I have used Outlook Express with no problem on my G3. Just
recently, it's developed an annoying little habit of not sending email.
I keep getting a "connection failure" error. It receives just fine. I
went through it with SBC tech support (my ISP), and stumped them.

I am wondering whether this is a bug with Outlook Express 6.
I noticed yesterday when adding contacts to my address book (wab) that when
there are more than 1000 contacts in the address book, that they are no
longer visible in the Contacts preview pane of Outlook Express.  If I ...

Anyone know this error how to solve?
Could not retrieve mail from the account"xxx"
The disk is full
But i find that my disk have 20GB free.

I hope someone can give me some suggestions on how to fix my stupid
user problem.  I have a G3 Powerbook running OS 9.2.2 and using Outlook
Express 5.0 (dictated by the cable company).
This morning the computer froze up while I was deleting everything in

I am unable to download an Mp3 binary file. When I select all the headers in
a post and combine and decode them, I was wondering what the next step would
be to play the file?

My Outlook Express (Mac 9.2) is suddenly doing a weird thing - all my
READ/UNBOLDED emails seem to disappear from my inbox. I did an advanced
search and can then see them but I cannot tell where they are. Only if I
BOLD them, close out of OE, and relaunch will they appear in my ...

To solve a problem I reinstalled Outlook express 5.02 & Mac OS 9.2.1.
Now how do I import my mail? I saved a copy of the old system folder.
THANYOU!