2008-07-21
Cool Software: MailStore Home email backup.
Being able to consolidate all your email accounts with Gmail is great. But what if Google deleted your email? It's hard to remember, but when you use any online email service, you're one TOS violation away from losing everything.
MailStore Home is a free Windows program that archives email. The truly paranoid can even burn all their correspondence to a CD, put that CD in a fireproof case, and hire twenty ninjas to guard the case day and night.*
I can't recommend this program enough. Once, before moving to gmail, I was offline for a few months racked up about 6,000 emails. My email account was filled to the brim and they were bouncing all further letters. Reading through all those letters and manually deleting the junk would have taken forever, but with MailStore Home, I was able to back up everything (just in case!) and start over with a fresh inbox.
MailStore Home is a free download for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. It's simple, effective, and easy on the eyes.
Enjoy.
* Ninjas sold separately.
MailStore Home is a free Windows program that archives email. The truly paranoid can even burn all their correspondence to a CD, put that CD in a fireproof case, and hire twenty ninjas to guard the case day and night.*
I can't recommend this program enough. Once, before moving to gmail, I was offline for a few months racked up about 6,000 emails. My email account was filled to the brim and they were bouncing all further letters. Reading through all those letters and manually deleting the junk would have taken forever, but with MailStore Home, I was able to back up everything (just in case!) and start over with a fresh inbox.
MailStore Home is a free download for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. It's simple, effective, and easy on the eyes.
Enjoy.
* Ninjas sold separately.
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