Transfering E-Maiil Folder To Another Computer

[BJS]

I may be buying a new computer is it possible to transer the E-Mail folder in it'e entirety to the new computer. Yhanks for any help.

[Flonska]

Have a look at this - it may help?

[Togo]

Most email programmes should do it automatically, Outlook(the old Hotmail) certainly do.

[Prudie]

I used a hard-drive to transfer my old emails over but I use Microsoft Outlook.

[Togo]

//Log in to the program using your previous username and password. Most computer-based email Programs like Outlook and Thunderbird automatically transfer your entire account to a new computer, as long as your Internet Service Provider(ISP) is made aware that you are transferring messages and changed your settings to enable your information to appear on more than one computer. If logging in with your email address and password does not import your messages, contact your ISP.
Click on "Options" inside your email program and choose "Import." You can choose to import files, addresses, contacts, messages, and folders. Click "Ok " to import these items. You will need to enter your email address and the password you used on your old computer to complete the import process//

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-transfer-email-to-a-new-computer

[BJS]

I use windows Live Mail on Asus computer.

[Guilbert53]

Windows Live Mail is no longer being made available by Microsoft (last release was 2012), so you will have to use some other mail program on your new PC.

I assume it will be a Windows 10 PC and if so there is a mail app included in Windows 10.

I believe Windows Live Mail stores emails on your PC so you will need to move them to your new PC, though if the mail app on Windows 10 can access them I don't know.

Search the web for "Moving Windows Live Mail to new PC" as there are a few web sites and Youtube videos to help you.

Note long term you are probably better moving to a "web" based email system like Outlook.com (or gmail) as then your emails are stored on the web and not on your PC.

This means you can access them on any PC in the world, and you wont have a problem next time of moving your emails to a new PC.

[Prudie]

I also have a Windows Live account (I think if that's the one where addresses end in hotmail.co.uk). I got a new laptop in January, I just put hotmail into google, clicked on the sign in with details and password and all my emails have come through going back to when I first opened the account (2013). They continue to arrive. This is on Win 10.

[BJS]

Obviously I am trying to make sure I can transfer all my saved mail to my new comp if I go ahead, trouble is in my dotage the old brain box is not so bright as the last time I changed computers.