Like my friend Martin from gHacks, I too am experiencing the email account shower. I now have about 6, but even when I had only one, I was looking for a solution to back up all my mail and burn them onto a CD. I used Outlook until now, but I may change my mind due to a little program called Mailstore.

Since saving all your mail in Outlook is either time consuming or hard to import to any other program I don’t really like it. Mailstore is awesome because it not only saves your mail from Outlook and other mail programs, it also supports POP and IMAP, so you can grab the mail right off yourserver. The awesomeness just grows because it has the handy feature to actually view the email right then and there, and even search through them.

All you need to do is input the source of the emails and then wait for the program to load them. You can set it up to backup to any location and you can even burn it to a CD or DVD. If you want to backup a Google account don’t forget to choose the SSL option (for both IMAP and POP), since this is available in the drop down box, not as a separate check box like it usually is.

If you are looking for a way to organize your mail and backups productively I think you should give this method a go. While there are some shortcomings (no scheduled backups) it is the only acceptable such program I’ve seen.

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