E-mail, chat, & VoIP forum: Importing Email Messages in Outlook Express

I am having a little difficulty with this process. Let me try to explain...
I create a new folder in mail list, eg. 'AAAMessage Box' (I used the AAA* to be sure the folder is listed near the top of the page.
I then exit OE; when I go to the folder store area, I notice there is a 'dbx' file 'AAAMessage Box.dbx', and, of course, it is empty.
I have already copied the dbx file that contains the mails I want into a folder on the HD; I have named that file 'Inbox1.dbx'
Your instructions above say to copy this file OVER the new, but empty 'AAAMessage Box.dbx' file(I assume that is what you meant)....If I did that, will I not get a file (Inbox1.dbx) occupying that space where the AAAMessage Box.dbx file was?
Should I, instead, rename the 'Inbox1.dbx' file (the file that has the mails I want to transfer) to read 'AAAMessage Box.dbx' and replace the empty 'AAAMessage Box.dbx' file with the renamed Inbox1.dbx file? This would/should but the transferred email messages in the AAAMessageBox mail folder when I open OE again (this is a question rather than a statement).

Thanks...my misunderstanding is the copy, when I think you mean rename and then replace; Is that correct?

I think you understand it correctly.

What I meant was: copy inbox1.dbx AAAMessagebox.dbx
That's the command line command to copy inbox1.dbx to AAAMessagebox.dbx and overwrite it if it already existed. Copy a file over another file so to say, replacing it.

In the GUI offered by Windows Explorer it's a 3-step procedure:
1. Delete AAAMessagebox.dbx
2. Copy (ctrl-c, ctrl-v) inbox1.dbx to Copy of inbox1.dbx
3. Rename Copy of inbox1.dbx to AAAMessagebox.dbx

And then, if you run OE again, your AAAMessagebox isn't empty anymore, but litterally is the old inbox1.

Kees