Keeping those old messages (Microsoft Entourage)

If you're like most of us, you probably read a message and then go on to the next, forgetting to delete it. Or, perhaps you want to save the message for later. Either way, you end up with bloated mail folders that make it hard to find individual emails and can lead to the database or the application becoming corrupted. Fortunately, Entourage makes it easy to backup your mail. Just drag the folder containing the mail you want to archive onto the desktop. When you do, Entourage archives the messages in an MBOX-format file. (Entourage only archives individual folders, so you'll need to drag out subfolders separately.) Then, should you need to access any of the messages, you can either use Word to open the file and do a search, or import the folder by dragging it back into Entourage.