Re: I want to archive oe mail

anon wrote:

> When I tried to 'export' messages, I got a dialog box - this will
> export form oe to ms outlook or ms exchange (which should I do?),
> when I clicked ok then I got an error message - the export could no
> be performed. an error occurs while initializing MAPI.

I wasn't actually talking about exporting messages, but importing from a
store directory.

The Tom Koch site about OE files is useful to understand
http://www.insideoe.com/files/  How OE stores files on your hard disk

My idea was that there is a folder somewhere which is full of all of
those .dbx files including folders.dbx.  That is an 'archive'.

If you were doing it the 'identity way', you would create an 'archive'
identity.  Now that new identity has no existing folders or files except
for empty Inbox, Sent, Deleted, Drafts, and Outbox which are created by
default.

In the new archive identity, you would use a wizard File/ Import/
Messages/ select from OE6/ then select the radio button From an OE store
directory instead of the default from an OE identity.

That will require you to navigate to the store directory which you
learned about above from reading at Tom Koch's site.

Part of the problem here is that you started this topic by saying "I
want to archive OE mail" -- but the OE mail is already archived.  We are
just discussing how to organize and view some OE mail which is already
archived and sitting in a folder somewhere as .dbx compressed database
files..



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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin