Export mail from Windows Live Mail 2012 to Exchange format

Question

I recently installed Office 365 on my mom's computer, and she wanted to transfer all her email from her old email client (Windows Live Mail 2012). I foolishly assumed she set it up using IMAP so I'd be done in a minute. But alas, it was set up using POP3. And to make matters worse, she had both folders hierarchically located under her email account, and others in completely separate "Storage Folders".

I figured I'd give the export function in WLM 2012 a try. Everything seemed to work until it got to about message 40 (out of a few hundred). I don't get an error and the program just crashes.

I tried moving the files but I think the files Outlook uses have another format than those used in WLM 2012.

If anyone knows how to transfer old messages from a POP3 setup in Windows Live Mail 2012 to an IMAP setup in Outlook 2016, I would be helped out a bunch!

Here's some images to explain what I mean:

• This is where I found the Export tool
• Export to Exchange format
• I want to export all folders
• Windows Live Mail 2012 wants to export no folders - I get this almost immediately after clicking export.

Answer 1

Just use another tool. For example, the free Import Messages from EML Files can easily import all your WLM mails into Outlook. Please note, that WLM is using EML files to store emails, so you can import them right into Outlook.

DISCLAIMER: I recommend this tool because I'm one of the developers, so feel free to ask any further questions.