I would be interested in knowing how to do this as well for both Outlook Express as well as Mozilla E-mail. I have tons of e-mails allot also dealing with family history and communications with cousins that i want to keep handy for future research. Something i noticed when i was using Outlook Express, on two separate occasions, once i got close to 2000 e-mails everything i had in the inbox was deleted. I dont know how that happened so i wonder if after a certain amount Outlook Express deletes all the e-mails. This was only with the inbox...everything in the outbox stayed. I now use Mozilla and have not encountered that problem....yet. I save every e-mail....minus the junk mail about cheap drugs from Canada, re-financing a mortgage and the repeated e-mails i get from some guy in Nigeria that wants to relieve me of what little savings i have.....thats what family research is for :-) Jim Booth Highland Mills, Orange County, NY [email protected] Helen Graves wrote: >Re: Questions regarding archiving emails > >Listers, > >I hope someone can advise me on how they archive their saved emails. I use Outlook Express as my email program. I have over 1,000 emails saved in labeled "folders" in my Outlook Express program. They have been labeled with a family surname or an individual's name, or by a locality, such as "NJ Sussex Co.", "PA Lycoming Co.", etc. > >Then I have over 2,000 emails in my SENT file -- genealogy emails I have sent since 2002. Not all of these need to be saved, but there are too many to re-read, sort, and then delete or save. I thought I would just dump them onto a CD and decide later. I have never done this, so I hope it is do-able. > > My IN BOX runneth over. I have over 1,600 emails received and saved since 2002 that are still in my IN BOX that have to be dealt with (i.e. I have to re-read them then decide either to delete them or save them. They just never made it to one of the folders. > >The time has come to archive these emails -- at least those that have already been saved and organized into file folders and the SENT emails -- and take them off my hard drive. I plan to copy them to re-writeable CDs before I delete them permanently. > >HAS ANYONE ON THE LIST DONE THIS? DOES ANYONE HAVE SUGGESTIONS? > >IS THERE A DIFFERENT WAY? How do you archive the genealogy emails you want to save permanently for reference? > >There are just too many to print and then file paper copies. I may do this later with some, which is why I thought I should use re-writeable CDs. > >EMAIL ATTACHMENTS. Documents, photos, group sheets, and other information have been sent to me as email attachments. Right now I am wading thru these emails and printing the attachments before I archive the emails with their attachments. (Belt and suspenders approach.) > >Helen > > > >