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**Kath Adams**

wrote:
Hi folks,

This is a rather annoying little problem, and I hope that I am posting
this in the right place. Any help would be very much appreciated.

I am importing messages from Eudora 5.1 into Outlook Express 6. My ISP
(e-mail provider) no longer supports Eudora (long story - basically
they are using a new Spam guarding program which they claim will not
work properly with Eurora?) Anyhow, when I've imported the messages,
all of the messages that were sent "TO" someone else and hence are
very easy to archive/search, now appear in OE 6 as being "From" me.
This is a real drag when it comes to locating older messages that you
have archived. If I have all received/sent messages on the same
subject in the same folder, I have to now keep two columns "To" and
"From" to see all of the information that one column used to give me
before.

This seems to stem from the fact that Eudora very cleverly did not use
"To" or "From". They merely used "Who", keeping the user out of the
loop as you always knew that you were the recipient or the sender.

Now, I am well aware that OE has an option to show both "To" and
"From", but I don't really want to go down that route. For future
messages, I guess that I can keep them all in the "Sent Items" folder
for easy access. But is there a way to keep all related messages in
the same related folder where I can see "Who" they are from or were
sent to alone, without having to look at "From" and "To"?

Hope that wasn't too confusing. It's likely just something that I will
have to learn to live with. OE users may not be sympathetic, but
former Eurdora people may be

Dave

Create folders for each person.
Right click on Local FoldersNew foldergive it a name.
Use message rules to move the mail you imported -
Toolsmessage rulesmail
Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the To line contains " "
Move it to the "John" folder
and Stop processing more rules
Apply this rule.

Do NOT archive mail in any of the default folders of OE.

PS. I don't get why your ISP does not support Eudora. Presumably you can
get your mail via the web interface of your ISP? Any Spam control takes
effect there. Outlook Express/Eudora is just picking it up AFTER this
fact.
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Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (Outlook Express)