Saving emails?

[Jerbear]

I wonder if any of you guys have any idea how to save your inbox and outbox messages. I have hundreds of emails on my cpu and I want to be able to cut down on the paper usage. Is there a way to burn them on a disk or something so I'll always have them?

[dkgojackets]

Re: Saving emails?

Why can't you just leave them in the system?

My yahoo email has thousands of saved messages.

[jaskerr]

Re: Saving emails?

What email program are you using? If it's Outlook, then create a new data file (meaning a .pst) first make note of where it's saved to, copy all your old email to it, burn it to disk, then take off that data file.

[mgoblue]

Re: Saving emails?

How do you check your e-mail? Are you talking about gmail, yahoo, or are you using Outlook Express or some other e-mail client? E-mail clients usually have ways to back up or save e-mails somewhere else (I think in Outlook you can just select them and paste them in a folder, they'll be in an e-mail format that text readers open). Not sure, I just move my inbox into a "OldMail" folder in my Outlook Express I'm onto OldMail5 right now and have all e-mails from the end of 2002 on lol

[Jerbear]

Re: Saving emails?

I'm using Outlook Express. Ideally I want to cut down on printing each email to save on paper. On the downside, if my cpu crashes I lose all record of all the emails. I just want to be able to back up all the emails on my cpu somehow.

[fishepa]

Re: Saving emails?

Here you go:

http://www.freebits.co.uk/backoutlook.html

[caseyd]

Re: Saving emails?

I'm not sure if Outlook Express allows it, but with the full Outlook, you can just drag and drop emails into a file location (it brings any attachments with it) and then just burn that folder to a disk. I stopped using PSTs a long time ago. All they do is slow down your email. Instead of an archive, I just drag and drop whatever email I want to keep to a folder.

What fishpa posted will definitely work too.