Re: I want to archive oe mail

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> anon wrote:
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>> 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.
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> I wasn't actually talking about exporting messages, but importing from a
> store directory.
>

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

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beautiful - that took care of the semantics problem.

actually, that was the method that I was using to 'move' the folders around 
and read the network mail files (sent folder from other computer.)
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> 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'.
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> 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.
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is this the method of getting the folders from identity one to the mailbox 
list in identity two?  (this makes the mailbox list look the same in both 
identities then - yes?)
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> 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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yes, what I meant was to store/save the mailbox list and contacts 'somewhere 
else' and be able to retrieve them to read with oe or something else.

this method looks like I can save/store the complete folder list that is 
stored in the folders.dbx file.

your explanation and links have cleared up a lot of things that were unclear 
in my mind - most I already knew, but there were some bad holes in my 
thinking - you fixed those.

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> Mike Easter
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