Yeah, thanks, I was aware of this feature within outlook. I have succesfully migrated everyone who wants a windows mail client to OE (free route). I was just 'googleing' trying to find a tool that would allow me to comvert the .dbx files into elm files maybe. I just don't know how attachements will be affected. That's another important consideration for my users.
Another option I've looked into is saving messages as text - i'm asking myselft, what about the attachments? Thanks for the reply though. Rafael. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Grover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 11:08 AM Subject: RE: (clug-talk) How do you guys backup your outlook express email. > I don't do a lot of work with Outlook Express, but do with Outlook. In > Outlook, you can create a personal folder (which is just a .pst file) and > put your emails into that. Then you can just backup the .pst file. Don't > know if that's possible with Express though. > > HTH > > Shawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: J. Rafael S�nchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 10:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: (clug-talk) How do you guys backup your outlook express email. > > > Hi Guys, > I know people who have tons of email and would like to keep it handy at the > same time unloading all that junk from their machines. Is there a way that > someone has used effectively. I've considered recommending, > > 1. find folders where all the .dbx files are and burn them onto cd > 2. create another identity > 3. dump the files from the cd onto the new identity > 4. test it > 5. go back to the original identity and delete what's been backed up > 6. delete the identity created on step 2. > 7. whenever needing to access the old files, repeat step 2, and 3. > > does this seem like a reasonable method. > Is there anyone who would recommend something better? > > Thank you. > Rafael.
