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[Jens Hansen]

I have folder in Outlook 2007 that has thousands of email messages that I'd like to move to Evernote. Some have attachments, some don't. Emailing them to my Evernote account isn't appealing to me for a number of reasons. Is there a way I can build a "rule" to copy all of the messages in the folder to Evernote using the "Add to Evernote" plug-in?

[gazumped]

Hi and welcome to the Forums. But please don't cross-post.

You could move your messages fairly easily - select multiple emails and 'add to evernote' and you'll get multiple notes with any attachments either embedded as an icon or (for JPG, PNG and PDF) shown in the body of the note. You'd want to do this in small batches, because the attachments are going to eat up your upload allowance - as will some signatures that involve images for logos.

But why would you bother? Unless these emails are essential history I'd suggest you leave them where they are unless you get a follow-up that indicates one topic or another is still 'live' - then you could transfer the email history over. I'd suggest you do it on demand, not all at once!

[BurgersNFries]

You can create an Outlook rule to forward the emails to your EN account. What I did is set up an Outlook category called Evernote. I select the emails I want forwarded, add the category to them, then run a rule that forwards emails with the Evernote category to my EN account. Works great for me.