Once e mails are backed up on CD, is it possible to reference / retrieve an
individual e- mail?
(By the way, Merry Christmas to all!)

How did you back them up?

If you backup the DBX file, you'll need to restore the DBX file in order
to access the messages.
How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
For an alternate description, see the last paragraph here:
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Or you could use one of the following utilities to extract the messages
to EML files

DBXtract - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DbxConv - DBX to MBOX/EML converter by Ulrich Krebs
http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html

Outlook Express Extraction
http://macallan.club.fr/index.htm

If you need to regularly access messages backed up on CD, the better way
would be to convert the DBX files to EML first and then save the EML
files to CD. The EML files can be read directly from the CD.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Happy" <happy@trial.ca> wrote in message
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> Once e mails are backed up on CD, is it possible to reference /
> retrieve an individual e- mail?
> (By the way, Merry Christmas to all!)
>
>

"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:%23glY$6YCGHA.3868@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> How did you back them up?
>
> If you backup the DBX file, you'll need to restore the DBX file in order
> to access the messages.
> How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx)
> http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
> For an alternate description, see the last paragraph here:
> http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
>
> Or you could use one of the following utilities to extract the messages to
> EML files
>
> DBXtract - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
>
> DbxConv - DBX to MBOX/EML converter by Ulrich Krebs
> http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html
>
> Outlook Express Extraction
> http://macallan.club.fr/index.htm
>
> If you need to regularly access messages backed up on CD, the better way
> would be to convert the DBX files to EML first and then save the EML files
> to CD. The EML files can be read directly from the CD.
>
> --
>
> Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

***Wow! Thanks for all this. I am about halfway through the solutions, and
'helps', and am most impressed.
Thanks again.