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Best Free Email Backup Utility
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| For many people, email backup is nearly as or more important than backing up documents, yet it's often not as easy. And if you have more than one account, email backup can quickly get out of hand, particularly if you need to find or restore some particular message(s). |
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Backup with MailStore Home comes as close to being a snap as you're going to get. Reading emails in the backup archive is as easy or easier as reading them in a regular email client. The quick search utility lets you find that one message you're looking for out of all the possible accounts it could have been in.
KLS Mail Backup does not backup POP or IMAP accounts. That means you cannot use it to backup webmail accounts like Gmail or Hotmail directly. |
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Comodo Backup supports Thunderbird, Eudora, Microsoft Outlook 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Windows Live Mail and Outlook Express. You can back up settings as well as messages. Don't know about contacts. It also backs up any files you select. MailBrowserBackup is a simple standalone (no install) program that detects and offers to back up Internet Explorer (Favorities ONLY), Mozilla Firefox (profile), Flock, Windows Mail, Windows Contacts (Win 7), Windows Live Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Opera (browser & mail), Apple Safari, Google Chrome, SRWare Iron, FileZilla FTP Client and Windows Live Messenger Plus. In Windows 7 I found that you must be running as an Administrator in your own account or Mail Browser Backup will not back up Windows Contacts for your own account. You can open the backup archives with 7-Zip (and maybe other programs) and see exactly what's in them. Of course you could also extract them with 7-Zip. Microsoft has a free backup program for Outlook that creates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2002 and later versions. More Backup Programs Gmail Backup via IMAP |
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So I tried EZMail and it failed with an error. Then I tried Mailstore Home and it fail with an error. Finally, KLS, which is now working beautfully, has a very nice interface (particularly the status display as the backup is running), and it seems fast.
MozBackup is worthless, it often creates corrupt backups.
Microsoft's backup also isn't reliable, it screwed it my PST somehow and I got shafted since I lost all my emails.
@rKAnjEL
RE: MozBackup.
I have found MozBackup to be reliable for several restores and for moving emails from one computer to another for Thunderbird. A couple of my friends have also used it and found it to be reliable. We have not had any problems with corrupt backups.
This the worst software category off all the gizmo subject areas. Mailstore Home can not really be used as a backup option as it has no restore feature(s). And the other program listed is basically in beta... never been released as a stable program?
Wish I could find a REAL and reliable backup/restore option?????????
Strange enough to read about not working restore feature of MailStore Home. It does restore whatever you want in any desirable form. That is, if, for instance, your main mail agent is Thunderbird, you may restore your messages to Thunderbird. Or you may save any of the stored messages as a single eml-file. Moreover, I could not find any analogs of MailStore Home. This software is really the best in this category!!
Thanks for the validation of MailStore TallMuch. It's always come through for me too when I've needed an email that I can no longer find in my account.
I suggest you try Comodo Backup, it's free and it seems to get the job done (it can backup much more than emails).
Comodo Backup supports Thunderbird, Eudora, Microsoft Outlook 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Windows Live Mail and Outlook Express. You can back up settings as well as messages. Don't know about contacts.
MailStore Home is derived from an enterprise caliber program. You can export the Mailstore backup to a number of email clients and accounts -- Microsoft Outlook, Exchange Mailbox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla SeaMonkey, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail.
You can also restore your email to an IMAP mailbox, or any generic email address via SMTP.
MailStore makes easy it search your backup to find and read individual messages (quicker and easier than many email clients). You can also open any archived email message directly in Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird or your default email client, and reply to it or forward it.
Maybe not perfect, but I'm sure most users would be grateful to have a MailStore backup if they lost a key message, their email account or their local files. I know I have been.
I disagree. I don't care what is "derived" from.
An email backup utility MUST be able to take reliable backups and make successful restores when required, if it can't achieve those 2 basic/simple functions then it fails its purpose.
This article is taking shape, hopefully a more polished version will appear shortly. Until such time as industrial strength backup and restore solutions reach us, you stick with yours and I'll stick with mine.
Rik - Category Editor, Best Free Windows 7 / Vista 64 bit Software
Site Technical Support Manager
This is a community site, where editors volunteer to write reviews. They give their time and energy, asking nothing in return. So, please appreciate the efforts in writing the article. Calling it as the worst software category... is not a good remark to make. Don't blame us if we delete such comments in the future. If you have a complaint to make, or a request, please do in a respectful manner.
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Alternative to KLS Mail Backup
http://alancla.110mb.com/mailbrowserbackup/
There is a regular backup program I have seen but not used yet called Backup To Email. It doesn't backup up your e-mail but rather let's you use the space in your email account to backup whatever you want from your PC. Might be worth taking a look at.
TestForEcho78
I too know nothing about this software. What I do know is that they operate a support forum via Google Groups but it only lists 8 members and 3 posts, two dating back to April.
I would need to see some real user experience accounts and much more information before making this a consideration.
For mozilla applications ,not outlook ,Mozback-up is an alternative.It back ups browser setings also.
Reliability is the most important in an program like this,and personally i only restored once and it worked.Anyone who is dispossed to give the program a few tests would be great
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
If only MailStore had a restore option it would be perfect. It works well, very well. But when I snap back to a former image, to rid myself of Windows issues, I loose all my emails saved in Outlook. Microsoft pst backup program works so-so, but seems to always causes issues of double enteries or dropping some emails at restore time. It therefore would be perfect if MailStore had a restore option and was able to stick the emails back into Outlook which are not presently there. I guess that would be a sync option.
I have noticed that many programs here are not Freeware, but paid versions. I'm gonna stop using this site. Rename it to Gizmos Shareware or something.
Could you please provide some examples of non-freeware that we recommend?
The reference to Static Backup contains a link which has trial software then requiring purchase.
Thank you syntax,
Yes, these programs have a free trial period, but it appears they are not free. I don't know if it's always been that way. I'm removing the listing.
Restore is not very easy to figure out. It is asking for an operative installation of Mailstore Server? I used the next one on the list, Genie-soft- very easy for outlook express. (experienced rookie)
Waynebob.
I believe the commercial version of MailStore relies on an external server to enable actual restoring, as apposed to just archiving your messages.
Cheers
The updated version is even better. It now includes a setup for Gmail, which all you need to do is just fill in your Gmail address, password and it just goes. Very fast too.
Realy great prog for archiving (allmost) everthing from mail this deserves a A++.
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