[Ham-Computers] Saving e-mail messages "outside" MS Outlook Express?

Don Arnold [email protected]
Sun, 4 Aug 2002 09:19:21 -0500


invest in a cd writer and save em all to cd-e-mail program and the whole
shooting match
best investment I ever made
and I have a 400 megs of e-mail on mine I keep from the various list
then besure you date each disk so you know when it is applicable to
don

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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Burch" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 9:08 AM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Saving e-mail messages "outside" MS Outlook
Express?


> Fellow qth.net supporters:
>
> Here's the situation....
>
> You come into the room and fire up your computer,
> but all you get is either the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death
> for the benefit of you Mac or lucky Linux users), or lots
> of whirring and clicking because your computer or it's
> operating platform just ate itself.
>
> Along with all of your neat links and other wonderful stuff
> that you have saved over time, you have also lost all of your
> precious e-mail messages.
>
> Here's the question...
>
> How can one, within the confines of MS OE, "save" messages
> onto disk or some other media so that the messages can be
> reloaded once the computer is repaired, or loaded onto
> another computer that is still functioning?  And we're taking
> about a bunch of e-mail messages here, not just three or four.
>
> Please refrain from suggesting that all messages be printed,
> or that all messages be exported to your favorite word
> processor and saved as .doc files, or any of a number of
> other cumbersome suggestions.  And suggestions about
> installing another hard drive, etc are great, but what if I don't
> have a second drive available?  I want to be able to save this stuff
> off of and outside the machine in question.
>
> I don't mind you directing your replies to me instead of to
> the list.  This topic may be of VERY little interest to the
> rest of the list subscribers.
>
> Thanks for the read, and any reasonable suggestions to help
> me figure out how to accomplish this daunting feat.
>
> 73 de John
> ..
>
>
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