Drag e-mail to Windows Explorer?

[DavidP]

Under the Navigation Pane in Outlook 2003 our organization needs to be able
to have the Windows Explorer list of network drives so that users can drag
and drop e-mails to a network drive from within Outlook.

Question 1:
Is this possible and how? Even using some 3rd party plugin would be
sufficient in order to be able to drag and drop e-mails to a network drive
from within Outlook.

Question 2:
If this is possible, we would also like the ability to have the message
saved with a specific filename, for example the time/date and subject as the
filename?

Thanks,
David

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook 2003 does not support that. See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.htm for tools to facilitate saving messages as files.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Pat Willener]

If you have Windows Explorer open beside OL2003, you can drag and drop
items out of OL to any folder that is visible in Explorer.

The filename will be the Subject line of the message, with an MSG
extension. You can rename the file later, but not during the
drag-and-drop process.