Of course, Doug's interested in not having those emails avaliable on his computer

Bitt has hit the nail on the head.

The whole idea is to get these emails (some of which could prove quite troublng should they fall into malicious hands) off of my work computer's local hard drive, and onto my home computer's local hard drive.

I don't want to go IMAP or off-line storage, because I would like to keep these emails integrated into my normal email correspondence flow, as many of them are still "active", that is, I refer to them for copying quotations into new emails or responses to existing ones.

The most promising approach seems to be on the website that Attack linked to:

Tips and Ideas
Archive a Folder
This simple method works in all versions of Outlook Express. The archive consists of an OE message serving as an "envelope".

Create a New Mail Message. Enter the name you want for the archive in the Subject line.

Drag the messages you wish to archive from the OE message list and drop them into the New Mail Message. They will be added as attachments.

Click File| Save as... and save the message to any Windows folder as type *.eml, and close the New Mail Message window. (The resulting file can then be compressed in a zip file to greatly reduce its size.)

To restore the archived messages to an OE mail folder, double-click the saved *.eml file. Select all the attachments and drag them into an OE mail folder. You can also of course simply double-click on a single attachment to read it.

If I understand that correctly, I can archive the contents of just the one folder as a *.eml file, use my empeg as a file taxi to take it home, then restore that *.eml file into my home computer in a new OE folder called "From Work" or something.

I hope I understand that correctly -- I am going to try it now.

tanstaafl.

That worked perfectly. The only surprise was that the transferred emails ended up in my "inbox" rather than the newly created folder I thought I was dragging them to. I probably just didn't drag them right.


db