How to import Outlook Express? How to import Windows Mail? If you are here, it probably means that you have done your email backup and came here for a solution on how to restore email from backup. If not, please read How to Backup Outlook Email.

To restore email from backup, you have to first open your Outlook Express or Windows Mail if you’re using anyone of them. Click on the File menu, select Import and then select Messages.

An Import window will pop up and ask you to select the format you want to import e-mail from. Simply select the e-mail program that you backed up from, for example if you backup your email from Microsoft Outlook Express 6, select “Microsoft Outlook Express 6″ from the list and then click Next.

If you select “Microsoft Outlook Express 6″, you will see a window of “Import from Outlook Express”, check the box of “Import mail from an OE6 store directory” and click OK. (You won’t see this window if you select “Microsoft Windows Mail 7″ from the list.)

Another new window will pop up and ask you to provide location of the email backup files. Click on Browse button and locate the previously email backup folder, then click Select Folder button.

Now, you can select the message folders that you would like to restore. Select All folders to import all the mail from the backup or Selected folders to restore only specific mailboxes. Click Next after selecting the folders, then Finish to complete the process.

If you see an error message like “No messages can be found in this folder’, the backup files you are trying to import are probably set as Read Only. This can usually happen if you’re trying to restore email from a CD.

To solve this problem, you must first go to the location of your email backup files, click Edit from the menu bar and then select Select All. All files should be highlighted now. Click File from the menu and then select Properties. The properties window will shows up, uncheck the Read Only box and click Ok. Now try restoring your email backup files again.