Many windows users use Outlook Express on the desktop to send and receive emails. Since I am currently running a somewhat antiquated machine - a Win 98SE box - this might come in handy for users still stuck on that platform.

For Outlook Express 5

Go to: Windows/Application_Data/Indentities/{whatEverNumber}/MicrosoftOutlookExpress/. Thats the folder that houses everything.

A quick investigation on how more modern versions of Outlook operate have yielded the same. Local Settings/Application_Data/.... So it basically the same.

What I do is use webmail. After awhile - when its gets 'full - I download into Outlook. Then it can be archived forever if needed.

I've found myself going through emails from 2002. If I took the time t o hook up my old hard drive, I'd have 3 years worth of email.

For what you ask? Posterity.