Symptoms

You want to change your email client from Netscape 7 to Outlook Express. In order to move all your email addresses in the address book, follow the steps below.

Resolution

1. Open Netscape 7.x.
2. From the Window menu, click Address Book.
3. In the left-hand column, click Personal Address Book.
4. From the Tools menu, click Export.
5. Type a file name for the Address Book. ***Note*** You must type the .ldif extension at the end of the file name. The .ldif extension is not automatically added. Therefore, if you do not add it, you will not be able to import the file.
6. Click Save.
   ***Note*** The file should automatically be saved to the desktop.
7. Make sure LDIF (*.ldif) is selected as the file type.
8. Click Save.

How to Import the Address Book into Outlook Express

1. Open Outlook Express and log in to your e-mail account.
2. From the Tools menu, click Address Book.
3. From the File menu, click Import | Other Address Book.
4. Click LDIF-LDAP Data Interchange Format.
5. Click Import.
6. Click the address book file exported using Netscape 7.x.
7. Click Open.
8. Click OK after the address book import process is complete.

More information

If the version of Netscape is previous to 7.x the steps are very similar.