can i copy/move a folder in outlook into a normal folder structure ?

I doubt you will be able to do this for free... but I hope I can be proven wrong.
This $79 plugin does what you ask: http://www.encryptomatic.com/messageexport/

I'm almost positive that there is nothing that will do what you ask. It's not that complicated technically, but I highly doubt that anyone has gone to the trouble of exporting Outlook email data into a file-based sttructure.

Hi, total123.

If a script-based solution (i.e. an Outlook macro) is acceptable, then I can make this happen.  It wouldn't be drag-n-drop though.  The user would select a folder and run the macro.  The macro would prompt them for the file system folder they want to export to.  Once they supplied that it would create a new folder and export the contents of the Outlook folder to it.  Would that work?

hi bluedevil

that sounds good, would it export the files as email files or into a pst format.

he's looking for the email file format.

excellent macro

Thanks!