kelvin

How can I do this using Outlook?

I have a Lycos mail account, and using a utility available from Lycos, Outlook synchronizes itself with my webmail facility when I start up (useful for me as I access my email from all over the place but like to use Outlook when at home). Where possible, I like to keep most of my received emails; and owing to Lycos's 15MB limit, the way I do this is to copy emails I want to "archive" over to a separate folder in my Outlook directory (i.e. removing them totally from the Lycos server).

Now, assuming I want to do a fresh installation, all of these mails will be lost as they're saved to my HD. Copying them back to my Lycos Inbox and "re-synchronizing" later isn't an option as in total there's probably about 40MB of emails, so what can I do? I assume there must be a way of saving my directory's and restoring them later?

What do I save, and how do I restore it later on?!

Thanks in advance, apologies if this is a bit of a simpleton question!

K.

darlodge

Within Outlook can you not jsut go to File\Export?

I've used this before and if you are using Outlook standalone (not via exchange) it stores a file called*.pst

And then when you want to import the messages again go to Tools Improt

Darren

darlodge

Oh by the way. I recommend testing this method before you rely on it

Darren

kelvin

Thanks Darren, I'll give it a go

K.