Mail Question

If I understand correctly - you'd like to live you messages on a server, so you can read tham from another PC. If it's so, you may do the following:

To store messages on a mail server
Storing messages on a server is useful if you need to read mail from more than one computer. When you log on to your account from a different computer, Outlook Express downloads messages according to the options you have set. You can store messages on a POP3 server. If you have HTTP mail, such as Hotmail, or IMAP mail, your messages are always kept on the server.

On the Tools menu, click Accounts.

Click the mail account, and then click Properties.

Click the Advanced tab, and then select Leave a copy of messages on server.

Hope I guess the point.

That's not a bad suggestion, to leave messages on the mail server. But if you want to back them up locally, look for files named *.mbx or *.dbx, depending on your version of OE. They will probably be in C:\Windows\Application Data\Identities\{a long string in curly brackets}\Microsoft\Outlook. Back up that whole directory.

the last answer about the *.dbx is correct, i've done it, you can back up that directory, when you go into outlook express you can right click on whatever folder(ex.: inbox)and go to properties, there it will tell you the exact directory in which itresides

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