restoring backed-up e-mail

Norton backed up my e-mails in a folder winmail.fol. I can not find a way to
transfer this back to Winmail, nor can I find any application that will open
the winmail.fol file. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

That would be a question for the good folks at Symantec; Norton created this
file, it should be capable of opening it.

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@kvoa.com
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com

"tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9AAEB8D3-08A0-43D7-B609-72F74ADBAFE3@microsoft.com...
> Norton backed up my e-mails in a folder winmail.fol. I can not find a way
> to
> transfer this back to Winmail, nor can I find any application that will
> open
> the winmail.fol file. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Thanks Hal. Maybe I should have spent 6 hours trying to wring it out of them
instead of the 5 hours I actually spent - trying to get the good folks at
Symantec to understand the problem. Apart from that your contribution, though
appreciated, was frankly ....... well, useless

"Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" wrote:

> That would be a question for the good folks at Symantec; Norton created this
> file, it should be capable of opening it.
>
> Hal
> --
> Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@kvoa.com
> Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
> http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
> KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
> Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com
>
> "tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9AAEB8D3-08A0-43D7-B609-72F74ADBAFE3@microsoft.com...
> > Norton backed up my e-mails in a folder winmail.fol. I can not find a way
> > to
> > transfer this back to Winmail, nor can I find any application that will
> > open
> > the winmail.fol file. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
>
>

So, unfortunately, are most Symantec products which I refuse to use for that
very reason It is, however, not really a mail problem and a Symantec forum
would be a much better place to raise the issue, hence the not-so-useful
suggestion.

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@kvoa.com
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com

"tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:15FE80AF-70D9-4878-96C5-B8AD643F3634@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Hal. Maybe I should have spent 6 hours trying to wring it out of
> them
> instead of the 5 hours I actually spent - trying to get the good folks at
> Symantec to understand the problem. Apart from that your contribution,
> though
> appreciated, was frankly ....... well, useless
>
> "Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" wrote:
>
>> That would be a question for the good folks at Symantec; Norton created
>> this
>> file, it should be capable of opening it.
>>
>> Hal
>> --
>> Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@kvoa.com
>> Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
>> http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
>> KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
>> Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com
>>
>> "tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9AAEB8D3-08A0-43D7-B609-72F74ADBAFE3@microsoft.com...
>> > Norton backed up my e-mails in a folder winmail.fol. I can not find a
>> > way
>> > to
>> > transfer this back to Winmail, nor can I find any application that will
>> > open
>> > the winmail.fol file. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
>>
>>

If you have a problem with a third party tool, then their site is the place
to seek support and not an MS specific group, which supports the use of MS
products
After all if you have a Ford, then GM is not the place to ask if you have
problems with it

"tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:15FE80AF-70D9-4878-96C5-B8AD643F3634@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Hal. Maybe I should have spent 6 hours trying to wring it out of
> them
> instead of the 5 hours I actually spent - trying to get the good folks at
> Symantec to understand the problem. Apart from that your contribution,
> though
> appreciated, was frankly ....... well, useless
>
> "Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" wrote:
>
>> That would be a question for the good folks at Symantec; Norton created
>> this
>> file, it should be capable of opening it.
>>
>> Hal
>> --
>> Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@kvoa.com
>> Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
>> http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
>> KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
>> Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com
>>
>> "tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9AAEB8D3-08A0-43D7-B609-72F74ADBAFE3@microsoft.com...
>> > Norton backed up my e-mails in a folder winmail.fol. I can not find a
>> > way
>> > to
>> > transfer this back to Winmail, nor can I find any application that will
>> > open
>> > the winmail.fol file. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
>>
>>

Thank you "DL". Now why didn't I think of that?
I take it that if you were lost in your Ford, you wouldn't think of asking a
GM driver the way? I can assure you that I really have been down all obvious
lines of inquiry, particularly including Norton - so far without success. I
thought that asking the wider MS community, who must have hundreds of
thousands among them who have used Norton's back-up facility, might just
reveal the answer.

"DL" wrote:

> If you have a problem with a third party tool, then their site is the place
> to seek support and not an MS specific group, which supports the use of MS
> products
> After all if you have a Ford, then GM is not the place to ask if you have
> problems with it
>
> "tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:15FE80AF-70D9-4878-96C5-B8AD643F3634@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks Hal. Maybe I should have spent 6 hours trying to wring it out of
> > them
> > instead of the 5 hours I actually spent - trying to get the good folks at
> > Symantec to understand the problem. Apart from that your contribution,
> > though
> > appreciated, was frankly ....... well, useless
> >
> > "Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" wrote:
> >
> >> That would be a question for the good folks at Symantec; Norton created
> >> this
> >> file, it should be capable of opening it.
> >>
> >> Hal
> >> --
> >> Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@kvoa.com
> >> Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
> >> http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
> >> KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
> >> Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com
> >>
> >> "tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:9AAEB8D3-08A0-43D7-B609-72F74ADBAFE3@microsoft.com...
> >> > Norton backed up my e-mails in a folder winmail.fol. I can not find a
> >> > way
> >> > to
> >> > transfer this back to Winmail, nor can I find any application that will
> >> > open
> >> > the winmail.fol file. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

We just work on Windows Mail issues here, and have no expertise in Norton.
Try asking in the Norton Users Forum: http://community.norton.com/norton/

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:638D4933-A28C-41C8-AC6C-850BF465EC0E@microsoft.com...
> Thank you "DL". Now why didn't I think of that?
> I take it that if you were lost in your Ford, you wouldn't think of asking a
> GM driver the way? I can assure you that I really have been down all obvious
> lines of inquiry, particularly including Norton - so far without success. I
> thought that asking the wider MS community, who must have hundreds of
> thousands among them who have used Norton's back-up facility, might just
> reveal the answer.
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> If you have a problem with a third party tool, then their site is the place
>> to seek support and not an MS specific group, which supports the use of MS
>> products
>> After all if you have a Ford, then GM is not the place to ask if you have
>> problems with it
>>
>> "tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:15FE80AF-70D9-4878-96C5-B8AD643F3634@microsoft.com...
>> > Thanks Hal. Maybe I should have spent 6 hours trying to wring it out of
>> > them
>> > instead of the 5 hours I actually spent - trying to get the good folks at
>> > Symantec to understand the problem. Apart from that your contribution,
>> > though
>> > appreciated, was frankly ....... well, useless
>> >
>> > "Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> That would be a question for the good folks at Symantec; Norton created
>> >> this
>> >> file, it should be capable of opening it.
>> >>
>> >> Hal
>> >> --
>> >> Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@kvoa.com
>> >> Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
>> >> http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
>> >> KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
>> >> Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com
>> >>
>> >> "tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:9AAEB8D3-08A0-43D7-B609-72F74ADBAFE3@microsoft.com...
>> >> > Norton backed up my e-mails in a folder winmail.fol. I can not find a
>> >> > way
>> >> > to
>> >> > transfer this back to Winmail, nor can I find any application that will
>> >> > open
>> >> > the winmail.fol file. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>

"tonybre" <tonybre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9AAEB8D3-08A0-43D7-B609-72F74ADBAFE3@microsoft.com...
> Norton backed up my e-mails in a folder winmail.fol. I can not find a way
> to
> transfer this back to Winmail, nor can I find any application that will
> open
> the winmail.fol file. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

tonybre,

Norton "what"? Backed up your mail.

Please give some detail about the application that you are using.


--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.
http://www.getsafeonline.org/

[gregsir]

Is there any new resolve with this issue? I have the identical problem, with winmail.fol files backed up on Dell Datasafe, that cannot be restored. Even Dell cannot figure this out. The import function on Windows Mail (Vista) does not recognize the files.
Thanks

As far as I know, winmail.fol files are not backups of Windows Mail.
If you know which program created those backup files, contact
their support techs or user forums.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"gregsir" <gregsir.3lae7e@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:gregsir.3lae7e@DoNotSpam.com...
>
> Is there any new resolve with this issue? I have the identical problem,
> with winmail.fol files backed up on Dell Datasafe, that cannot be
> restored. Even Dell cannot figure this out. The import function on
> Windows Mail (Vista) does not recognize the files.
> Thanks
>
>
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[gregsir]

I did find out that winmail.fol is not the file that contains Windows Mail messages. Messages are individually stored as .eml files. They can be simply copied from your Windows Mail\Local directory to a storage device like a thumb drive, then copied back to your new Windows Mail\Local directory. This worked for me. The "Local" folder is usually found in: users\username\appdata\microsoft\windows (or microsoft) mail

Using a file manager (Windows Explorer) to add or delete
messages is not advisable because it will corrupt the database.
Use the Import/Export tools under the File menu.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


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>
> I did find out that winmail.fol is not the file that contains Windows
> Mail messages. Messages are individually stored as .eml files. They
> can be simply copied from your Windows Mail\Local directory to a storage
> device like a thumb drive, then copied back to your new Windows
> Mail\Local directory. This worked for me. The "Local" folder is
> usually found in: users\username\appdata\microsoft\windows (or
> microsoft) mail
>
>
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