You can add message rules to Outlook Express that will automatically look at the email and based on the rules it will either move or copy it to a folder or even forward it to some email account.
Know more about Outlook Express Rules
All of your OE mail folders and messages are stored in one folder called the store root, or store root folder, or store folder, and in at least one place in OE, the Store root directory. It’s default location is
C:\Windows\Application Data\Outlook Express\{GUID}
or
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express
where {GUID} is the Global Unique IDentifier (technical jargon for a unique long number) used to specify an Identity. Depending on your operating system and upgrade history, your store folder might be located elsewhere.
To determine the location of your store, click Tools| Options| Maintenance| Store folder.
DBX files (with *.dbx file extension) are the files where Outlook Express stores email messages. They can be found in so-called Outlook Express Store Folder.
To determine Store Folder location click Store Folder button at Tools > Options > Maintenance in Outlook Express.
When you open Store Folder in Windows Explorer, you will see a set of DBX files. Every file contains messages from the appropriate message folder in Outlook Express. For example, Inbox.dbx contains emails from Inbox folder, Sent Items.dbx contains emails from Sent Folder and so on. Folders.dbx is an index of all Outlook Express message folders. It contains a structure of all news groups, mail folders and some synchronization data.
Emails are important to a business, to safeguard you important emails against email disaster you need to backup all of your emails to a safe location.
Know how to backup outlook express emails.
To send and receive emails, you have to configure the Email Accounts in the Outlook Express.
Know how to configure email accounts in outlook express
Outlook Express can be used for any POP3 or IMAP email account.
POP3, which stands for Post Office Protocol 3, is a set of rules with which one accesses and downloads emails.
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a set of rules with which emails are assessed.
If you have a web site hosted on a server, most likely the hosting package would come with a few POP3 email accounts. Thus, yourname@yourdomain.com would most likely be a POP3 email.
Outlook Express, comes free with Internet Explorer or Windows operating system. It’s a lean and mean email client.
Microsoft Outlook on the other hand is an email client but comes at a price. To justify the cost of the software, Microsoft Outlook has tons of features and functionalities which are not present in Outlook Express. It is a part of Microsoft Office Software package.
Outlook Express is an email client. In non-technical terms, it is a program that lets you send and receive emails from your computer. It is one of the most popular email clients in the world simply because it comes free with Internet Explorer (and Windows operating system). Because Internet Explorer comes bundled with Windows (the most popular operating system) and that it had some great features when compared to its nearest competition at that time (Netscape Navigator), the browser soon became the browser of choice on most desktops. And as Internet Explorer became popular the usage of Outlook Express as the default email client increased to make it the leading email program on the Internet.