On 16/04/2021 12:33, Tim Streater wrote:
On 16 Apr 2021 at 09:26:50 BST, polygonum_on_google
wrote:

On Friday, 16 April 2021 at 08:50:03 UTC+1, SH wrote:

2. Your email client will have a PST file containing *all* your emails,
email addresses, email contents etc.

Many of us have not one single .pst file. (I have one - which is an file last written in 2012! I think I might have used it to recover something or other.)

What is a .pst file?



whenever you create/send or recieve an email and all your email folders
all get backed up to a *.pst file.

The idea being that you can export the *.pst file from older/to be
scrapped or to be formatted & reinstalled machine.

Then you import the *.pst file a new/reformatted & reinstalled machine
so your new set up then has all teh emails and folders etc