Question about Outlook Express

[P.C.]

Does anyone know if there is a way to save e-mail messages to a disk ?

There are no options to save or send to  anywhere outside of Outlook Express.  Is there any way around this ?  (please pardon me if this is a stupid question)

[TehBorken]

 This might be what you're looking for. You might want to consider using [a href="vny!://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/"]Thunderbird [/a]if you're switching or transferring email applications.
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[h2 id="section-3"]Saving messages into a "standard" format[/h2] [h3 id="section-3.1"]The plan[/h3] The plan is to get Outlook to export messages into a standard format. Since it knows how to create standard emails - this will be our format.[/p] [h3 id="section-3.2"]Before you start[/h3] Backup your Outlook Express files. If you are not planning to delete messages, then this step may seem unneccessary. However it is better to be safe than sorry.[/p] See the following page for details.[/p] [a href="vny!://www.codeconscious.com/outlook-express/backup-outlook-express.html"]Backup/Restore Outlook Express[/a][/p] [h3 id="section-3.3"]Steps to follow[/h3] 1) Open Outlook Express.[/p] 2) Make sure you are in offline mode. If neccessary use Choose File -> Offline to ensure this happens.[/p] 3) Select the folder with the messages you want to archive/backup/export whatever.[/p] 4) Select the messages you want to archive (you can use Edit -> Select All if you want everything.[/p] If you have a lot of messages, it might be a good idea to only select groups of messages. For example , you could get Outlook to sort by date or by sender and then just select certain ranges of messages.[/p] 5) Is the "Forward" button showing (not dimmed)? If not, follow this procedure. This is probably because you clicked off a message and then did Select All. Instead click on one message and then choose Edit -> Select All. The "Forward" button should be showing again.[/p] 6) Click on the "Forward" button. Here's the trick. All your selected messages become attachments to this newly created message. Enter any message details that will describe the emails you have attached.[/p] 7) Now, the second part of the trick. Choose File -> Save As and save your message (that contains your messages as attachments) to a file in your choosen backup directory. You should now have a message file with an extension of ".eml".[/p] Close your forward message without saving it.[/p] 9) Go back on-line if it makes sense - using File -> Offline to remove the checkmark.[/p] 10) Optionally delete the messages you have just "exported" - after you have checked that they are all there.[/p] 11) Close Outlook.[/p] Ok NOW you should have successfully exported your emails out of Outlook Express into a standard format - it just happens to be a single email message.[/p] [h3 id="section-3.4"]Notes to this procedure[/h3] [ul][li]Your exported Outlook emails are contained in a single email message.[/li][li]The format of this file corresponds to internet standards for messages.[/li][li]In programming terms, it is not very hard to seperate the emails out. Have a look at the next section if you want to use the program I've made to do this. My program uses REBOL, but even if you do not know REBOL I've made it easy to use because aside from installing REBOL all you need is to do is click on icons and select your files.[/li][/ul]
 

[TehBorken]

And yet another way.
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][font face="sans-serif" size="4"] How to Export my received Outlook Express emails for Transfer to Another Computer[/p]  [/font][font face="sans-serif" size="2"] 1. Open Outlook Express.[/font][/p] [font face="sans-serif" size="2"][img]vny!://www.aamu.edu/ITS/howto/Image25.gif" height="38" width="118"][/font][/p]  [font face="sans-serif" size="2"] 2. Click File->Export ->Messages.. from the Menu.[/font][/p] [font face="sans-serif" size="2"][img]vny!://www.aamu.edu/ITS/howto/Image26.gif" height="224" width="344"][/font][/p]  [font face="sans-serif" size="2"]3. At Export Messages screen, click [OK].[/font][/p] [font face="sans-serif" size="2"][img]vny!://www.aamu.edu/ITS/howto/Image27.gif" height="123" width="508"][/font][/p]  [font face="sans-serif" size="2"]4. Click [OK] at Choose Profile screen to accept default profile name (Outlook).[/font][/p] [font face="sans-serif" size="2"][img]vny!://www.aamu.edu/ITS/howto/Image28.gif" height="161" width="328"][/font][/p]  [font face="sans-serif" size="2"]5. Select "All folders" radio button then click [OK].[/font][/p] [font face="sans-serif" size="2"][img]vny!://www.aamu.edu/ITS/howto/Image29.gif" height="181" width="435"][/font][/p]  [font face="sans-serif" size="2"]6. Export wizard will start exporting (copying) your archived emails to your folder (see below for exact location).[/font][/p]  [font face="sans-serif" size="2"][img]vny!://www.aamu.edu/ITS/howto/Image30.gif" height="129" width="359"][/font][/p]  [font face="sans-serif" size="2"]7. Export completed.[/font][/p]  [font face="sans-serif" size="2"][font face="sans-serif" size="4"]After completion of export, your exported email messages should be saved in system default area as shown below.[/p] [/font] [/font][font face="sans-serif" size="2"]To see your exported folder, Start "Explore" by right-clicking at  Start icon at bottom-left corner of your screen and navigate to  Documents and Settings[font color="#ff0000"]-> your logged name[/font] ->Local Settings-> Application Data->Identities->[font color="#ff0000"]User ID number[/font]->Microsoft->Outlook Express[/font][/p]  [font face="sans-serif" size="2"][img]vny!://www.aamu.edu/ITS/howto/Image31.gif" height="135" width="165"][/font][/p]  [font face="sans-serif" size="2"]    [img]vny!://www.aamu.edu/ITS/howto/Image32.gif" height="324" width="352"][/font][/p] [font face="sans-serif" size="2"][font color="#ff0000"]Note: If you want to transfer your exported email messages to a new computer, copy the entire "Outlook Express" folder to a portable storage device (diskette, USB flash memory or FTP to your virtual space) then use the import wizard from your new computer to import.[/font] [/font][/p]

[P.C.]

Thanks so much TehBorken.....haven't got time to give it a shot right now, gotta get ready for work in a few minutes, but will try that asap.[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/d042.gif" border=0]