MailStore Home: Backup and archive emails quickly and easily

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MailStore Home: Backup and archive emails quickly and easily

by Simon Kerbel Dec 20th 2007

Have you ever lost your massive email database to a hard drive crash, inadvertent deletion, program failure, or monsoonal winds? Go on, it's okay to admit it; we're all friends here. Well now there's no need to let the failures of the past haunt you; now there's MailStore Home.

MailStore Home is a wonderful solution for people who have a need to backup their emails in a straightforward and simple fashion (read: everybody). Best of all, it's free. As in 100% free. It works with all POP3 and IMAP accounts (as in Gmail), as well as Thunderbird, Outlook, Exchange Server, Windows Mail, and many others.

MailStore Home offers a simple three step process for backing up your email accounts. Once you've downloaded and installed the free program (12 MB), open it up, click on import, enter the settings for your particular account, and double-click your newly created email profile. Wham! It's done. But unlike the 80's band of that same name, it won't wake you up before you go-go.

Once the backup is created, you can leave it in MailStore, export it to .eml, or burn it to a CD or DVD. Or, like me, you can lean back in your chair, lock your hands behind your head, and feel pretty good about yourself for backing up what really are your most important files (regardless of that picture of you and the Prime Minister of Malaysia).

[Via Cybernet]

Tags: archive, backup, freeware, mail, windows

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

RC said 4:19PM on 12-20-2007

If you set this up using Imap for gmail what do you use as the host name?

RC said 5:09PM on 12-20-2007

Figured it out. imap.gmail.com and on the drop down tab select IMAP SSL

Tom said 5:46PM on 12-21-2007

Wow. this is my first review ever.

why? THis is great software.

I have a couple PST files and many duplicate emails in them. This app archived all my emails and didnt import all the duplicates. ie. 15,000 emails in my sent box ended up being a but over 5000. I tried deleting duplicates manually in my inbox and took me a day to do it. This app did it automatically. Thanks guys!

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