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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. And with the quick search utility, you have the best chance you'd ever have to find that one message you're looking for out of all the possible locations it could have been in.
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StaticBackup, Inc has free individual backup programs for Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express, IncrediMail, Thunderbird, Becky, and Eudora. Scroll down their page a bit to find them. I briefly tried the free program for Windows Live Mail. It was very fast and seemed to work fine. "Static Windows Live Mail Backup Free" backs up/restores all your WLM registry entries as well as your messages. 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. MozBackup: for Thunderbird and other Mozilla products |
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Thanks for posting this philip before I got round to seeing it!
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.
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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?
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.
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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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