How do I store emails to a hard drive?

[Gordon]

Folks.
I am using outlook 2002 (SP3) at work and have been given a little project
to work on. (I'm not an IT expert by the way.) We wish to store my emails on
a remote server and because of discussion threads emails will have the same
header but slightly different conversations as various people answer the same
email together. We need to keep them all.
When I try to store on the remote server Windows(?) attempts to overwrite
emails with the same header so the latest date only is stored. We need to
store them without any overwrite taking place and without having to number
the email headers (time consuming) so overwriting doesn't take place.
Is there a method of doing this so we can just drag and drop and have them
all stored or can you suggest an available application that will do this?
Many thanks.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am using outlook 2002 (SP3) at work and have been given a little
project to work on. (I'm not an IT expert by the way.) We wish to
store my emails on a remote server and because of discussion threads
emails will have the same header but slightly different conversations
as various people answer the same email together. We need to keep
them all.

Storing messages outside of Outlook is less efficient that storing them in
Outlook. Do you have an Exchange server?

When I try to store on the remote server Windows(?) attempts to
overwrite emails with the same header

You mean "subject", don't you?

so the latest date only is
stored. We need to store them without any overwrite taking place and
without having to number the email headers (time consuming) so
overwriting doesn't take place.
Is there a method of doing this so we can just drag and drop and have
them all stored or can you suggest an available application that will
do this?

Don't keep them in a Windows folder.

 

[Gordon]

Thanks for the response.
Perhaps should have mentioned that we are dealing with numerous emails for
lots of customer orders. Too many to keep in Outlook and they need to be
stored where people from various departments can access them.
I have no idea if we have an exchange server - how would this help and how
would we use it?
Cheers.
Gordon.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have no idea if we have an exchange server - how would this help
and how would we use it?

WIth Exchange you could keep your messages in public folders that all can
access and the data will be in its original form, not in the form used when
you store a message outside of Outlook. Much more effecient, in my opinion.