Transferring 1000 emails from one user to another user

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I coworker of mine is out of state and needs to transfer about 1000 emails
from their outlook email account to my email account. What is a quick and
easy way to do this so that she still has the emails in her account and I
have a copy in my account? Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
 
Hard to say without any details.
Version of Outlook?
Type of mail account?
Total size of emails?
Connection possibilities?
 
Create a new PST file.
Drag-and-drop the 1000 emails to the new PST file (use right-click
drag-and-drop to choose between Copy and Move).
Transfer the PST file to your computer (make sure that the read-only
attribute is not set when using a read-only media for transport).
Open the PST file with Outlook.
 
I am using Microsoft Outlook 2003
I do not know the total file size of the 1000 emails - I'll guess 3 - 7 MB.

To test out the suggestion I clicked "File" > "New" > "Outlook Data File"
and made a Office Outlook Personal Folders File.

Then I used "Edit" > "Copy to Folder..." to copy files into the folder.

I can see the files in the new personal folder.

Then I went directly to the pst file and tried to zip it but got an error
that it can't be read. I closed outlook and tried again to zip the pst file
but got the same error. Then I tried to attach the pst file to an outlook
email and got an error that operation failed.

Any ideas as to why I would receive these errors? Are the steps that I am
taking previously correct?

Thank you!
 
Verify that the outlook.exe process actually quits after closing Outlook
otherwise there still is a lock on the pst-file.
 
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