[Ham-Computers] "Moving" e-mail messages from one computer to another?

[John Burch]

Anyone ever been successful in moving lots of saved/read 
e-mail messages from your old computer to your new computer?

Both computers use Outlook Express for mail readers.

Can one simply hook the two computers "back to back" between
the NIC cards with a turn-over cord as some sort of a small two-
computer network?

Any reasonable thoughts welcomed.  Thanks very much for
your time and any workable suggestions.

John
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