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