This system is for Outlook Express and Windows Mail.
Open your email program.
Click the middle button in the top right hand corner of the screen to make the window smaller.
Create a folder on your desktop by right-clicking a blank area and selecting New/Folder.
Name it "Email".
You could also create several folders if you want to organize your emails.
Put the folder(s) where you can see it.
Now it's time to select the email you want saved.
If you want all of them, then just hold down CTRL+A, this will select all the emails.
For selecting some emails, hold down the "CTRL" key while clicking the ones you want.
After selecting, left-click a highlighted area in one of the emails and drag over to the new
Email folder you have just created.
(All the selected emails will go)
When you see the "+" appear, release the mouse button.
You have successfully copied those emails to the folder.
Firefox users can't drag and drop multiple emails, but you can right-click an individual email you want saved
and select "Save as" then browse to the folder you want it saved to and click "Save".
These .eml files can then be saved to a disk outside of your computer, thus avoiding loss of the emails.
When you click the file it will open in your default email program.
Please Note: that you can only open the emails in the same program as you saved them from.
i.e if you are using Outlook express, then that is the only program the saved mails will open in.
Good Luck Peggy