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Migrate outlook from one laptop to another

I'm buying a new laptop. For my email I am using Outlook 2003, it downloads mail the usual way - connecting to a POP3 server and saving all the data into the usual outlook.pst file.

The only special thing is I have outlook set to "Leave Messages On the Server" after downloading.

When I migrate the data to the new laptop, I don't want the new laptop to re-download every message on the pop3 server all over again.

How can I migrate all my outlook account settings and data from the old laptop to the new one, and preserve the pop3 settings, username, password etc. for my email account?
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No... these files do not contain that all important "last message ID downloaded" property that keeps outlook synced with the pop3 server. It still re-downloads everything.

I think I have found the solution though.

Go to Start->Programs->Microsoft Office->Microsoft Office Tools->Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard.

The wizard lets you save and restore your profile, which will include all your profile information, pop3 info, smtp info, etc. Basically your entire profile as described in Control Panel->Mail.

It doesn't do anything with your PST file. It's up to you to copy/restore that yourself. But it seems to do the trick for keeping POP3 synchronized through the migration.
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Good to know.
answer was not complete but lead me to google the right thing.