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]