Re: Locally stored EMail with MSN

[PA Bear]

Forwarded to MSN Discussion newsgroup via crosspost.
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~PA Bear

Tom H wrote:
> When I went to a cable modem account I switched from MSN 9 Dial-up to a
> Hotmail account. Now I am unable to read any EMails I saved locally on my
> computer using MSN Dial-up. I am able to start MSN in the offline mode put
> get the following error messages. At sign in (MSN cannot verify that the
> Microsoft Passport Network ------- You can still read EMail -------).
> After in MSN displays all folders incuding online and locally. I can open
> local folders and the content is displayed but I get the Error messg. (MSN
> ERROR REPORTING were sorry but MSN Explorer has experienced an internal
> error and will restart). These locally stored Emails are very important
> and I need to be able to move to hotmail or print them out.

[Tom H]

How do I get into the MSN Discussion newsgroup via crosspost.

[PA Bear]

You're already there! =>
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.msn.discussion/browse_frm/thread/e22c57b316d6e9bc?hl=en#44cede75dd6241cd

As long as those replying to this thread continue the crosspost, replies
will be available in either newsgroup.

[Earle Horton]

"PA Bear" <PABe...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:OUukF5CQ...@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Continued MSN service using your old user name and password is available for
$9.95 a month using your current cable ISP. If you pay $9.95 for one month
of service you "should" be able to open MSN and get verified by the
Microsoft Passport Network. Then you can forward the emails, "Save As" or
move the folders to online storage, whatever you like. Then after the
initial month simply cancel that service or convert to Hotmail Plus, which
is a more reasonable $19.95 a year.

Here is a trick. Log in to MSN (after paying $9.95 to reactivate the
account) and move all the local folders to online MSN folders. Then after
your initial month is up cancel the service and log in to Windows Live
Hotmail using the same user name us...@msn.com and password. Voila! It is
for all intents and purposes now just a Hotmail account with "@msn.com" in
the name. All your folders will now be in online storage, accessible via
the Hotmail web site but not via MSN Explorer.

The method suggested by Stephen Boots is good too but you may not be as
comfortable renaming files and moving lots of raw ".eml" files around. If
these emails are very important then paying Microsoft $9.95 for the
privilege of moving them to Hotmail doesn't seem like so much.

Cheers,

Earle