Getting data from *.msg files

[Ian_Trout]

Hi.

I exported some of my mail messages into *.msg files. The default file name
is the mail's subject.
Is there any way to change the default file name to the date of the mail, or
is there any way to sort the exported files according to their date received
and not the date created in the folder?

Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I exported some of my mail messages into *.msg files. The default file name
is the mail's subject.
Is there any way to change the default file name to the date of the mail, or
is there any way to sort the exported files according to their date received
and not the date created in the folder?

When you save a message as a file in Windows, you get to choose the name of
the file. When you drag it from Outlook to Windows, you don't and there's no
way to get anything other than the subject when you drag the message.
Moreover, Windows itself has no idea that the file is mail and the data
contained in the headers with regard to the date values Outlook can see have
no meaning whatsoever to Windows so, no, you can't have Windows sort those
files by any dates that are not Windows file system dates (created, modified,
accessed, etc.). The received date of a mail message is not a WIndows file
system attribute. Only Outlook itself has the ability to interpret what's
inside of that file when it is opened. Why are you saving the messages
outside of Outlook?

 

[Ian_Trout]

Basically that's what I thought, but I need a 'very' low level user to do
this, so it had to be as easy as can be (thus the dragging).

I'll find some other way... Thanks anyway.
(And i'm saving the messages as an archive, and I can't have it in pst format)

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Basically that's what I thought, but I need a 'very' low level user to do
this, so it had to be as easy as can be (thus the dragging).

I'll find some other way... Thanks anyway.
(And i'm saving the messages as an archive, and I can't have it in pst
format)

Why not? MSG files can be opened properly only by Outlook so they are no more
application-independent than PSTs and PSTs are better for storing multiple
messages.

 

[Ian_Trout]

My main concern is that a PST is one file, and if something happens to it
then all the works is lost, on the other hand if on the MSG files goes
missing, well, that I can live with...

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

My main concern is that a PST is one file, and if something happens to it
then all the works is lost, on the other hand if on the MSG files goes
missing, well, that I can live with...

That's why you make copies of the PST - so that if it fails you have a backup.
Thinking that MSG files are "safer" is misguided.