Y’know ordinarily I don’t crown the title of "best" to any particular application because there’s usually something better. However, this… THIS… is the best mail backup I’ve ever used.
KLS Mail Backup is free and it will backup your mail so easily it’s a wonder someone didn’t write something this good sooner.
Observe:
Not only will KLS backup your mail, but it does the Address books, certificates, saved passwords/forms (which you can uncheck for security reasons if you want) and a whole bunch of other stuff.
In addition, it will backup from Microsoft Outlook Express, Seamonkey/Mozilla, Windows Live Mail and/or Mozilla Thunderbird.
Talk about cool.
Even better: It’s not just backup – it will restore mail back to a client as well.
When you run this thing, it will gather all you tell to get and pack it up nice and neat into a single ZIP file. After that you can toss the file on a CD or flash drive.
It literally doesn’t get any easier than this.
Note to Hotmail users: Now you have a way of easily backing up all the mail in your account. Just use the Windows Live Mail client to download all your Hotmail locally, run KLS and ta-da – it’s all backed up!
For Gmail users: You can do the same thing. Just use the mail client of your choice to download via POP and back up the mail.
THIS is how mail backups should work. Easy, simple, effective.
I give this app two huge thumbs up.
Get it here: http://www.kls-soft.com/klsbackup/mailb_index.php
Do not understand what you mean by: Just use windows live mail client to download.
How do i download everything that is in my live hotmail account?
Please explain,
Rgds Tony
1. Download Windows Live Mail client.
2. Configure Hotmail account.
3. Client downloads mail automatically.
It’s roughly the same as if you were using IMAP except it’s using a proprietary Microsoft mail protocol via HTTP.
I’m confused, if I just use web based mail such as hotmail or yahoo, why would I need to back it up? It’s not like I am running out of space…
Good question, I have a good answer for you.
If you don’t login to your Hotmail at least once every 90 days (last I knew), the account will reset and all the mail in it will vanish. Yahoo! Mail will also reset inactive accounts after a certain period of time.
If you back up your mail locally, if the account resets your mail isn’t lost.
Here’s another reason: A friend of mine was going through divorce. Here mail account (through sbcglobal.net) was in her husband’s name. In this, she was keeping track of her case details. At one point, her husband decided to change account settings and she could no longer access her email!
Lew Worthington
I am responsible for a SBS 2003 which is running Exchange. How about a recommendation for exchange backup?
TIA
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This app is way not the best.
I prefer MailStore Home, its free, can all do the things above + supports alot more mailservers.
It also supports pop3 and imap, both with TSL and SSL and supports batch fetching for multiple mailboxes.
All in a very smooth design and intuitive manner.