Enlightenme - you did not tell us what type of e-mail you have been using with your current provider.

If - you have been use POP3, which downloads the e-mails onto your machine via Outlook Express (or something similar), then you should not have to do anything. The email history, both sent and received are residing on your machine, and you should not have to do anything.

If - you have been using Webmail, where the saved e-mails reside on the web site of your ISP, then you should go in and change the settings of Outlook Experess/Windows Mail to bring down the e-mails onto your machine.

I use both. I have webmail accounts set up so that I can access the e-mail from any internet connected PC, and then periodically I bring down and archive the e-mails I want to keep onto my PC in Outlook Express.

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