How do I export all email folders/files from a browser based email service like Comcast to a hard drive based system like Outlook? Any help would be appreciated.

Do you have outlook or outlook express? The instructions would be different between the two products.

I have Outlook Express. Thx.

To setup your Comcast Account in Outlook Express


Open Outlook Express
Click on Tools, then Accounts
Click on the Mail Tab, then click Add Button
Select Mail
For Display Name, enter your name
Click Next and type your email address
Select Next
Leave POP3 in the drop down menu
enter: mail.comcast.net for incoming mail server
enter: smtp.comcast.net for outgoing mail server
Select Next
For Account name, enter what you login to the webmail site with
follow suit with password
select next/ok until you are done, and you should be ready


****Restart Outlook Express to check for errors in the email transmission (it will cause OE to attempt to login and transmit mail)

To pull your contacts/address book from comcast, you will need to export them from Comcast and then Import them into Outllook Express

To Export Your Comcast Contacts


login to the webmail page
select preferences
select the address book tab
at the bottom, you should see an import/export section.
under export, ensure that the type is listed as outlook-unknown-csv and click export
select all address books or sections that you want to export and click ok
save the resulting contacts.csv file to your "my documents"


To Import This file to Outlook Express

In Oulook Express

Click the Addresses Button at the top
Click Main Identity Contact In the Pane on the left
Click File|Import|Other Address Books
Select Text File (Comma Separated Values) and click Import
browse to your previously saved contacts.csv then select next
Map your fields (you'll have to do your best with this) and only select those fields you care to import.
when you are done, click the close button


You should now be able to use your contacts from outlook express

Hope this helps

Thans Ideas, much appreciated. Will this method also work for my saved email folders as well?

This should work for everything in your inbox.

I don't know if it will do the mail in folders.

Would strongly recommend that you move all "folder" stored email to your inbox in your comcast webmail and then recreate folders for them in outlook/outlook express.

Hope this helps

I have office outlook 2007

I have office outlook 2007

How do I export files from comcast.net to office outlook 2007?