Creating e-mail archives from Local Folders

• You must have a CD or DVD drive that is capable of writing in order to use this approach.
• Because it is handy to have the archive reader program on the CD, prepare to put it on the CD by first copying it to your harddrive:
• Create a folder on your system's hard drive named 'emex' and copy the EmEx program to it: EmEx for Windows and EmEx for Linux and Macintosh
• Place a media blank (CD, DVD) in your writeable drive.
• Add the folder named 'emex' that you created on your system's hard drive to the top-level of your disc image.
• Create another top-level folder (same level as 'emex') on the disc image to contain the e-mail folders. Given our experience, this will greatly facilitate reading the archive later on. Names such as 'email-archive' or 'INBOX' will work fine.
• Using the CD burning software on your computer, such as Roxio, Easy CD Creator, Toast, etc., browse to the location on your hard drive indicated in your e-mail client under Preferences (Mail & Newsgroups | Server Settings | Local directory).
• Select the folders that you want to archive and add them to the disc image so that they will be placed in the top-level INBOX folder.
• Pay attention to the capacity of the media (CD, DVD) as you add folders.
• When finished selecting local e-mail folders, go ahead and burn the disc.

Read about EmEx to learn about using the archive.