Backing up emails

[Shelle]

Whats the best way to back up emails? I have started to save them as a text document, in order to transfer onto floppy or cd, but wondered if there is a better way? Should I save as a rich text doc, or do this in an entirely different way?!

[OBonio]

What email program do you use?  In Outlook there is an archive option which will save all your mail to a file that you can then copy to cd etc.  If you want to backup the email settings aswell, look for a (possibly hidden) file called outlook.pst.  This has all your settings and email in as far as I know.

[j2buttonsw]

Correct, Outlook with internet mail saves everything as a .pst file. Outlook Express uses .dbx files that are hidden in your profile. See here http://www.helpwithpcs.com/tipsandtricks/outlook-express-backup-messages.htm  You can export OE to a .pst file but you can only import it back into Outlook. If you are using Outlook with exchange you can use exmerge to backup your mailbox to a .pst file.