Move or Copy Email Items Creates New Email With Attachments Instea

I am trying to move or copy several years of email items from one folder to
my inbox in Outlook 2003. I am doing this in 1 month bunches at a time.
Sometimes it works, but most of the time Outlook creates a new email message
with the email items as attachments.

Why is this happening?

Just curios; what purpose does this serve?
I could understand moving from Inbox to a folder, if you've never bothered
to Archive, but this way?

"ctc" wrote in message
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I am trying to move or copy several years of email items from one folder
to
my inbox in Outlook 2003. I am doing this in 1 month bunches at a time.
Sometimes it works, but most of the time Outlook creates a new email
message
with the email items as attachments.

Why is this happening?