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Manual Steps to Convert Lotus Notes to Windows Live Mail

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Published By Mohit Jha
Nimisha Ramesh
Approved By Nimisha Ramesh
Published On November 18th, 2022
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In Today’s arena, all the organizations depend on various email applications for the purpose of e-communication. Moreover, all email applications will provide a wide range of inbuilt functionalities to the user that is needed for the email management. So, due to the presence of this constraint all the users need to switch from one email client to another platform. One such migration is from Lotus Notes to Windows Live Mail. Therefore, in the upcoming section, we are going to discuss common reasons and workarounds to convert NSF emails to EML file format. Before discussing all such things, first, we have to understand about Lotus Notes, Windows Live Mail in detail.

Lotus Notes to Windows Live Mail

About Lotus Notes & Windows Live Mail

Lotus Notes: It is a collaborative client-server application, which includes instant messaging, browsing, file sharing, and other business related smart applications. Moreover, IBM Notes is well known for the security feature, no other email clients offer a secure platform as much Lotus Notes can. Also, users can apply encryption to all the NSF database or encrypt an email message while sending or receiving. However, Lotus Notes helps to work smarter, faster and brings the world to the desktop.

Windows Live Mail: It is a free email application developed by Microsoft. It is an updated version of Outlook Express and Windows Mail that were included in previous Windows version, but with additional features. It can run on Windows 10 and all its earliest version. So it was built after Windows XP, Vista and Microsoft Outlook. In the latest version, such features i.e. to enable search to senders address, title or content of an email, viewing emails, calendar and other features during offline are enhanced.

Needs to Import from Lotus Notes to Windows Live Mail

There are many reasons to fulfill the needs to perform the data conversion. Lotus Notes is one of the technical email client due to which many non-tech users find it very complex and difficult to get good access to it. On the other hand, EML is a file extension, which is supported by multiple email clients like Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, The Bat!, etc. because of which users need to convert their data.

Another reason for the email migration is cross-platform. Suppose, any worker moving to a different organization and might require all previous emails from Lotus Notes application. If acquired format is EML then, anyone can easily compatible with other email clients like Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, The Bat!, etc.

Manual Ways to Migrate Lotus Notes to Windows Live Mail

There are following steps to perform Lotus Notes to Windows Live Mail conversion process. Some of them are discussed below:

Step 1: First of all, Open the Lotus Notes email client and select each email that you wants to store in EML format

Step 2: Now, Click on the File menu and choose Save As option

Step 3: After that, Choose the File Name and hit on Save button

Finally, selected emails will get converted into EML file format without any kind of data loss.

Wrapping It Up

The Number of email clients is growing day by day, so the users choice is also changing rapidly. When the user gets some different email client, then, they start searching for the conversion process. But, switching from one platform to another is not an easy task. Due to certain reasons (discussed above) we have tried to cover multiple steps to convert Lotus Notes to Windows Live Mail. Also, we have discussed basic details regarding Lotus Notes and Windows Live Mail email client.