Then you probably want something like this since I would guess you are
going to a mail program that supports MBOX format.
Emailchemy Conversion Utility
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/

or you want some other EML to MBOX converter.

If you want free, the attached BAT file will create an MBOX file from
EML files (after some editing).

You can use Drag-and-Drop to save multiple e-mail messages at a time.

- Open the Windows File Explorer to the folder (directory) that you
want to save the messages to (e.g. C:\EML-TEMP). For minimal confusion,
the folder should be empty or only used for saving mail messages.
- In Outlook Express highlight the desired messages (Ctrl-Click or
Shift-Click)
- While holding down the Left mouse button, drag the messages to the
Explorer window. If the Explorer window is not visible, drag to the
Taskbar button for Explorer, keep holding the left mouse button down
until Explorer moves to the front, then complete the drag to the
Explorer window and then release the Left mouse button.
- Complication: Messages are saved as *.EML files where the first part
of the file name is the message's subject. If you save multiple
messages in one drag-and drop operation, OE will automatically number
the subsequent messages with identical subject to make the name unique.
But if you later save additional messages with the same subject it will
start the numbering process over again and you will get a "Confirm File
Replace" dialog for the duplicate names. When this happens, leave the
confirm dialog and switch to the Windows File Explorer. Rename the
first file (e.g. rename "The Subject.EML" to "The Subject-1.EML"). Then
switch back to the Confirm dialog and click on YES. The new message
will get saved with the original name and the previous message will
still be there with the new name.
- You can then use the EML2TXT.BAT file to combine the *.EML messages
into a single Text file. You will probably want to make some changes,
such as the EML directory. See the comments (REM statements) in the
file.

--

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


"paul" wrote in message
...
more reasons to dislike ms. I m migrating to Linux.

thanks,
paul

"Frank Slootweg" wrote in message
...
paul wrote:
sorry. File~Export~Messages... Resulted in quoted error message
below.

File~Export~Address Book... Works fine.

You can only Export Messages to Outlook or Exchange (as the popup
window tells you ("This will export messages from Outlook Express to
Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange"/[OK][Cancel])). For this to
work, you have to have Outlook/Exchange installed on the (same)
computer. You probably don't and the MAPI error message is telling
you
that, albeit in a very cryptic way.

As to why you can only export to other Microsoft products? Can you
say
"lock in"?

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
What are you trying to export?

Start by visiting Windows Updates. You are running a very old and
less
secure version of OE. Of all the updates you are missing, no less
than
four have a direct effect on OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"paul" wrote in message
.. .
Dialog box:
The export could not be performed.
An error occurred while initializing MAPI.
OK

Can someone help me fix this?

Tks,
paul