Hi, I have a need to export emails from a folder created in outlook but preserving the metadata, and have the exported emails grouped by sender.
Can anyone help, or point me in the direction of 3rd party software that can do this?

Sooo grateful for assistance
Jae

What format do you want the exported emails to be in? Also, what metadata specifically are you referring to, transport headers or the "To", "From", "Subject" type fields?

It would be in msg format.
I have a need for project emails that have been saved in a folder within outlook to be exported out and saved with project documentation. It is easy to highlight all emails copy and save to another folder, but this loses the date/time metadata.
In outlook searching for an email would (I suggest) mainly be done by sorting by sender name. So I am looking for a solution that will export all emails for a particular folder, preserve the date/time, and sort them by sender name, or give the option to select this.
I have found one commercial product by Tech Hit called MessageSave, but it is expensive per licence when multiplied across our organisation.

Hmmm...in that case I would take a look at this list of automatic processing tools giving careful consideration to this tool that preserves the received date and can save the emails in msg format while renaming it according to sender, subject name, etc.