I am helping someone move data from their old laptop to a new one. The old laptop is windows 10 and running windows essentials 2012 live mail. The new PC is windows 10 and has outlook 2019 on it.
2 of the accounts are imap and can be moved with ease. there is a 3rd account setup in live mail that does not sync with a server and only serves to store about 8000+ messages dating from 2009 to 2015. The messages are on the hard drive of the old laptop in .eml format.
I created a .pst file in outlook to house the older mail. What I need to know is how to import it. I tried dragging and dropping it from the hard drive into the outlook folder and it imported, but was not treated as a mail message showing info like from, to, date, message. Outlook treated it as a file with todays date.
How might I go about getting the files into outlook? is there maybe someway to export the mail into a.pst file? I'm not that familiar with windows live mail since it's not been maintained in years.