Isn't there an email program somewhere that makes all this simplle and straightforward, without having to understand what you're doing? So that you can just say click on a mail folder, and say "save it" to some CD or somewhere, and retrieve it later when you want it, without worrying about what kind of file it is and all that tech stuff?

"Export to Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange" - I don't really know what that means. I don't want to archive my emails to something on my hard disk, what I want is to have them handy on a CD, so the next time my computer crashes, I don't lose the emails and so forth, and can reload them on my email programme when I get it going once more.