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Question

Outlook Express Archiving

Oct 29, 2011 12:30AM PDT

I'm a new Mac user and use Outlook Express for my emails as I have done for many years with my PC. My mailbox is filling up but there is no archive folder and I can't follow the instructions to create one. Deleting emails is not an option because I use this for business. How do I bring up an archive folder?

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Re: Outlook Express on Mac
Oct 29, 2011 12:37AM PDT

You can't follow the instructions to create one, you say. But you don't tell why you can. Let me guess: it needs a mouse and yours isn't working. Or maybe the instructions are written in Chinese?

I've been using Outlook Express on Windows XP for years. But I never did create an archive folder. How did you do that?

Kees

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You my be a new Mac user, but,
Oct 29, 2011 5:03AM PDT

you are not using a new Mac.

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Re: Outlook Express for Mac
Oct 29, 2011 5:18AM PDT

It was a surprise for that it existed. But, then, I'm not a Mac user.

The screenshots in http://outlook-express.en.softonic.com/mac look somewhat, let me say, outdated. If I was told it was a screenshot of a dBASE III program, I would believe it.
If it resembles Outlook Express for Windows, making a new folder (calling it 'archive') should be in the New-menu.

http://download.cnet.com/Microsoft-Outlook-Express/3000-2367_4-2911.html says it's uploaded in October 2002. And it's by far the most popular e-mail client they have: 66 downloads, with Mozilla Thunderbird only having 88.

Kees

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Lots of things still exist,
Oct 29, 2011 11:07AM PDT

but that does not mean that they are still viable.