Topic: Reducing the occupied space in Outlook and Outlook Express -

[joudi]

Do you need more space in your reception e-mail box? Well, there?s a way to empty it and put its? contents in a separated folder.

Create a new folder. Open your reception mailbox. Left click (hold clicking) on the mail which you like to transfer. Move it to the new folder, and release. After that you can wipe your mailbox contents to have more free space.

You can conserve in that way thousands of mails. And you can even burn them on a CD.

Of course, if you try to double click inside the new folder, they?ll not open correctly. To open them, you have to drag the desired mail back to the reception e-mail box.

It worked with me not only through ?Outlook? and ?Outlook Express?, but in msn mail directly.



P.S.    It?s important to mention that I lost once very important mails, thinking that they were conserved in a separated folder (or document). Although I wiped them definitely from my mailbox, they continued opening correctly at that very day. But some days later, everything was gone.
Well, I didn?t use exactly this method which is mentioned above.

So, My advice is, if you like, you can try first with not very important mails. Wait some days or weeks after erasing them from your mailbox, and try it later. If it works, you are then in security.

[Simon]

Outlook has an automatic 'archive' feature, Joudi, which, if enabled, will archive mail older than a certain point in time, to a separate folder.  It could appear that the mail had disappeared.  I wonder if this is what could have happened to your mail?