Saving emails so that the 'sent date' is viewable in Windows Explo

[jaymesglew]

Good afternoon

I have a small query. I have about 2000 emails on my work computer that,
because of the nature of my work, I want to place onto the hard-drive but I
don't, if I don't have to, want to use Personal Folders.

Currently, I drag and drop, and I get all the emails from the Inbox into a
folder in Windows Explorer, say, June 2008.

Is there any way at all to make it so that someone else could look at that
folder and list them in the order they were sent - or have Outlook
automatically at the sent date as a field on the end of each of their
filenames?

This is hard to explain - apologies! At the moment I'm dragging and
dropping, F2ing and adding the date manually. And there's a whole lot of
emails to go...

Many thanks
Jaymes

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a small query. I have about 2000 emails on my work computer
that, because of the nature of my work, I want to place onto the
hard-drive but I don't, if I don't have to, want to use Personal
Folders.

Why is that? You must run Outlook anyway in order to see the contents of
any save MSG files, so why be averse to using a different native Outlook
format that is much more efficent than the MSG format.

Currently, I drag and drop, and I get all the emails from the Inbox
into a folder in Windows Explorer, say, June 2008.

Is there any way at all to make it so that someone else could look at
that folder and list them in the order they were sent - or have
Outlook automatically at the sent date as a field on the end of each
of their filenames?

No. You want to alter a Windows file system propertiy, so you'll have to
find a Windows utility to modify the files' attributes to reflect the values
you want stored. There may be some Outlook add-in that might help as well,
and you can peruse a non-inclusive list here:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail_tools.asp