Saving Outlook Express folder of mails for external use?

This should give you the information that you require

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1659335,00.asp

Thanks Intrepid. That answers my second question: how to save, transfer and reaccess my files if I have Outlook Express on my home computer as well.

I don't, though, don't like it much. I suppose I could reinstall it somehow. Brings me back to my first question: is there also a way to save these messages in a way that I can access them externally, outside of Outlook?

You could save them as text files, but you would have to do them individually :-(

Dummy here, can't you forward them to home?

Several hundred of 'em, Osso? Pasting in my address into the "To" field of each of 'em would have cost as much time as saving each of 'em as a text file ... apparently the only other way to go about it.

I ended up just copying the .dbx file onto my memory stick. I'll have to reinstall Outlook somehow again on this computer some day to access the mails that are ensconced into it, I suppose.

Some things I really hate about technical 'progress'. I remember the first email programme I used, Nupop, and each message would simply be a numbered file of its own, that you could open in Notepad. OK, they didnt have attachments back then I think. But now, with how it works these days, you cant open any email that was received using one email programme with any other programme. It sucks. I have a big folder with emails from my Pegasus Mail days too that I cant access anymore (and I need this guy's email address that I used to correspond with ... its in there, somewhere).

Thats subject for another question, by the way. I used to use Pegasus, then one day my computer crashed and I had to reinstall everything, I think - or perhaps its when I got this computer in the first place and had to move everything here from my old one (laptop). So I moved all my Pegasus mailboxes onto here and tried reinstalling Pegasus from the download (it is/was a free download). But I never got to get the newly reinstalled Pegasus programme to show up those old mailboxes that I put right back into the same place they used to be in. I'll have to get back to that some time ...

( perhaps I should use the same method Intrepid posted about Outlook ... copy those mailbox files into another folder temporarily, create mailboxes with the same names into the empty mail programme, copy the old mailbox files back into place, see what happens ...)

Outlook or Outlook Express?

It was Outlook Express..

nimh: Which e-mail client do you have at home? Can it import Outlook Express's .dbx files? (These may be stupid questions)

Background: The idea that first came to me is that you save your mails to a .dbx file now. Later, without the time pressure of having to do it immediately now, you could either use or download a mail client that can read dbx files (such as Netscape messenger). You would then import them as, in the example of Netscape, described here. It's still awkward, but should be managable.

(Edit: Oops, didn't pay attention to the date of the first post. Never mind.)

Gotcha. You'd said as much but later abbreviated and some confuse the two.

You also mentioned that it wasn't installed, and it usually ships with windows so I thought you might mean Outlook.

Anywho, what you could have done (and if others find it they can do this as well) is go to your inbox, press CTRL A and then drag the emails to a windows explorer window (make sure to choose a folder for them).

They will then be saved as individual .eml files, which several applications read. Edit: Including a text editor like notepad.

There is softeware that will export to HTML etc as well. Ultimately, what one should use really depends on what one wants to do with them afterward.

e.g. getting them in html would not really help if you want to import them into a different client.

Sorry I didn't see this earlier..