Hi, Emrys.
Yes. Each message will be in a separate .eml file, which is a plain text
file with some metadata - and a long cryptic name created by WLM. If you
want to see them, first find the path to your Message Store by clicking
Tools | Options | Advanced | Message | Store Folder. Then use Windows
Explorer to browse to that folder. Find the subfolder that corresponds to
one of your Mail Accounts and look into that folder's Inbox folder. As you
will see, the actual filenames are inscrutable, but if you click on one, you
can easily read it. In fact, if you click Explorer's Organize | Layout menu
and turn on the Details Pane, you can read each message without even opening
it.
Those strange filenames are indexed, of course, so that WLM can show them to
you. But that index is kept in the Mail.MSMessageStore file which is not
ordinarily readable, at least not by me.
We'll need on of the WLM gurus to guide us from here. As Paul Harvey used
to say, "Don't ask me for details. I've already told you more than I know."
:^}
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64
"Emrys Davies" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> I am about to buy a new computer with Win7 installed and my intentions
> are to install Windows Live Mail. I know that if I import my .dbx file
> to WLM they will be stored as .eml files. Now my question: Will the
> imported and stored .eml files open in a readable state, unlike stored
> .dbx files which will not open properly in their stored location?
> Google did not help.