Collective e-mail backups
How do I take a collective backup of the e-mails I wish to keep available for a while? I use a 128 MB mobile disk for backup followed by a 40GB backup on the server PC.

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I assume you're using Exchange, but I'm not sure. If it is Exchange, put the e-mails you want into a folder and then do an export to a file. Put it into personal folder file format (.pst) and output it to whatever directory you want. Your administrator can probably be of help here.

This was first published in October 2005

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