I am not familiar with OEFB, so I did not comment on it.
OE can be run to read eml or nws files and read newsgroups with having an
email account installed.
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Ron Sommer
MS MVP- Windows Live Mail

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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Are you at all familiar with OEFB, Ron?

Ron Sommer wrote:
Running OE on a new machine will not install the accounts for email to
download, so there will not be any new messages.

It shouldn't matter if you have run OE yet or not, *except* any new mail
would be lost. So if that is your concern, then yes, do wait to run OE.
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