From Heinz Tschabitscher,
Your Guide to Email.
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When you save messages in AOL, that will typically happen in your Saved on My PC folder inside AOL. With custom folders and usable search, this approach works quite nicely, but it also traps your messages inside AOL, in a way.

To move all the messages stored inside your AOL Saved on My PC filing cabinet to a different email program, try one of the email migration tools. But if you need to rescue just one message, or just a few, the manual route is entirely feasible and works in a surprisingly straight-forward manner.

Export an Individual Message from AOL's "Saved on My PC" Folder

To save an individual email from your AOL Saved on My PC folder:

• Select Mail | Saved on My PC (Filing Cabinet) from the menu in AOL.
• Open the folder containing the message you want to export.
• Click on the message with the right mouse button.
• Select Forward from the menu.
• Enter either your new email address or your AOL address in the Send To: field.
• Click Send Now.
• Open Outlook Express or the email program you want to import the message to.
• Download new mail.
  • If you forwarded to your new email address, download all new messages from that account.
  • If you forwarded to your AOL address, make sure you access the AOL account via IMAP in the email client you want the message to appear in.
• Move the original attached message to its final destination in your email program.
  • If you use Outlook Express, double-click the forwarded message to open it in its own window.
  • Drag and drop the attached messages (it should appear under Attach: right below the subject) to the Inbox folder, for example.

To export or restore more than one message at a time, try a tool like ePreserver.