back-up e-mails

[Otto Slembeck]

I would like to back-up my e-mail messages to an external device.
When I click File | Export | Messages from Outlook Express I get an error
message "An error occurred while initializing MAPI".
I could copy the file that contains the messages but I don't know the file
name and its location.
Does anyone know this?

Thanks

Otto

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Backup & Restore:
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP - (IE/OE)
~IB-CA~

 

[PA Bear]

You can only Export to MS Exchange or MS Outlook.

References:

Backup & Restore OE Data
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

OE Files & Settings
http://www.insideoe.com/files/index.htm

OE Registry Keys
http://www.insideoe.com/files/regkeys.htm

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (last paragraph)

Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
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news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
OE General newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

Inside Outlook Express
http://www.insideoe.com