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Backup Your Email with MailStore Home
Posted by Gina Trapani at 1:46 PM on December 21, 2007
Windows only: Archive all your email messages to DVD or to your hard drive with MailStore Home, a desktop email import, search, and archiving utility. Fire up MailStore Home and import any POP/IMAP email (like Gmail or Yahoo Mail) or Outlook, Windows Mail, or Thunderbird email. MailStore Home sucks in all your messages and lets you burn a backup disk or store and search your entire library locally for when you're offline. MailStore Home also has some disk space conservation smarts, and it doesn't lock your messages into a proprietary format.
Save Disk Space To conserve disk space, MailStore Home saves only a single instance of each attachment, even if it appeared in more than one e-mail. Additionally, a smart compression algorithm is applied. No One-Way Road Messages are stored MIME-compatible, and can be recovered at any time without information loss.I'd been using a way geekier (read: complicated) method to back up my POP email; this looks much more person-friendly. MailStore Home is a free download for Windows only.
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djej
Posted 7:55 PM 20/12/07
It makes me really happy to see this. I'm always trying to find a better way to hold onto e-mail...and even more, trying to help others store their insanely large Outlook folders places that they can reference later. So nice to see something like this storing messages in a non-proprietary format. Very non-Sony style!!! Thank god.
djej
BackDoorAngel
Posted 11:21 PM 20/12/07
This would have been great for my dad, who recently had to move 5-6 years of outlook off of his company servers when leaving his job.
BackDoorAngel
Techtweaker
Posted 1:11 AM 21/12/07
To use this for gmail mail the host is imap.gmail.com and under the dropdown use IMAP SSL
Techtweaker
fullerrj
Posted 5:49 AM 21/12/07
Can you import emails from separate locations? For example, I have an Outlook email directory on a separate hard drive from my Thunderbird directory. If so, will it consolidate all the emails in a single location?
fullerrj
torque2k
Posted 6:54 AM 21/12/07
Wow. I'm actually excited to get home tonight to play with this on my old PC (which I still keep around because I don't want the hassle of migrating all that data to my VMware Fusion image). I've got multiple accounts in both Outlook 2003 and Thunderbird on there, and the ability to search among the archives from a centralized app sounds useful, indeed!
torque2k
sinderphytik
Posted 6:50 AM 21/12/07
I've love to use this, save for one little issue...
Google Desktop already archives my Gmail - has anyone found an app that can decrypt whatever file or database it stores the emails in? Then it would save me from installing one more program to do the same thing.
sinderphytik
LastVigilante
Posted 8:13 AM 21/12/07
I use MozBackup for backing up everything in my Thunderbird. I had to recover some lost emails at one point and the process was relatively painless. But whatever you use, backing up email is very important and often overlooked. I do it as a favor for members of my family and friends who aren't so diligent!
LastVigilante
xxdesmus
Posted 11:20 AM 21/12/07
If this works I will be absolutely thrilled. Looks like a great application.
xxdesmus
Fabrizio Lodi (from Italy)
Posted 11:17 AM 21/12/07
I've found some glitchs, i.e. in refreshing the tree view of the servers. And a major drawback in not being able to automize it.
Seems IMAPSize ([www.broobles.com]) is still a better solution.
Fabrizio Lodi (from Italy)
thisismikesother
Posted 10:59 AM 23/12/07
Could you then import this back up copy into Gmail? Drag and drop IMAP style?
thisismikesother