O/T Outlook email backup

[langy]

As part of my companies archiving procedure, we need to electronically store all incoming and outgoing e-mails in a format which is easy to search on our intranet (pdf being the prefered option).

I currently have 1.3gb of e-mails in my .pst file and this will take forever and a day to print the individual emails to pdf files.

Is there an easier way to 'batch' print the emails to individual .pdf's.

TIA

Sean

[Richgm]

Can you not select multipule items in the message pain and then print them to PDF ?

[langy]

I tried this and it prints all of the selected e-mails to 1 pdf

[v7slr]

Do you need to archive ALL incoming and outgoing emails or just present those which you still have available? In other words, if you delete a load to reduce how mahy you have to convert to PDF, what's stopping you?

In companies where I've had to introduce systems which keep a copy of every single email ever sent in to or out from the company, we use a proper archiving function (exchange, and others, can output to an attached SAN) but I've never encountered a legal requirement to have them scannable in PDF format.  

[langy]

Ideally, they want all incoming and outgoing emails available. The reasoning is to eliminate the need for large storage sheds in various places across the country and make them easliy accessible across the intranet for other interested people in the company just in case of claims etc and if my laptop gets stolen.