7 Popular Email Backup Services
While most online backup services will backup your email, it can be tricky to get just the right files. It can be even trickier to restore those files later on. For that reason, some people prefer to have a separate service just for their email backups.
If that sounds like you, here are the top 7 most popular options:
Adolix E-mail Backup
Adolix Email Backup is a powerful software that will backup your email if you are using one of the following email clients: Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Incredimail, or Eudora. It backs up email data such as accounts settings, mail folders, signatures, message rules, address book and stationary.
You can choose to backup a single identity or all of the identities on your computer.
The built in scheduler allows you to select what email client to backup and specific details for each one. Everything is then saved to a single archive that can be protected by a password. You can even backup your email to an FTP server for extra peace of mind.
It’s $25 for basic Outlook Express backup, and $37 for full-featured version. (A 15 day trial is available.)
Link: Adolix.com
Right Email Backup
This software backs up your email. It is designed for scheduled backups with MS Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Messenger, IncrediMail, PocoMail, The Bat!, and Opera Mail. (It looks quite a bit like Adolix.)
Download a 15-day trial or order the full version for $24 (for a personal license; business licenses are more.)
Link: RightFiles.com
MailStore Home
MailStore Home is a free, easy to use email archiving software for personal use. It supports just about any email client out there, including Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and many more.
As far as I can tell, when it comes to free software, it doesn’t get any better than MailStore Home. It has all the basic features, plus some really cool ones. For example, you can run the program on any USB drive, creating an email archive for quick access on-the-go without installation.
Link: MailStore.com
KLS Mail Backup
KLS Mail Backup is an easy to use backup program that allows you to back up and restore your Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox profile files.
Mail Backup is freeware, so it’s completely free to use as much as you want. (They make money by selling KLS Backup 2011, a full-featured backup software for all of your data, for $60.)
With the great features, ease of use, and free download, this is usually the most talked about email backup software around.
Link: KLS-Soft.com
Beyond Inbox
Beyond Inbox is a program that offers email backup along with other organizational and archiving features to help you “take control of your inbox.”
If you just want to backup your email for security reasons (in case of a computer crash,) that’s no problem. But with Beyond Inbox, you can do much more. For one thing, you can archive your emails to keep your inbox free of clutter, yet still be able to find old emails quickly with the search function. You can also transfer your email to another account, great if you change email aliases often.
A copy of Beyond Inbox will cost you $49.99, but you can actually download the software and use it free for 30 days before needing to purchase a license key.
Link: BeyondInbox.com
Amic Email Backup
Amic Email Backup is a handy piece of software designed to create backup copies of your email database. It can save emails, address books, mail, and news accounts, along with their settings, message rules, blocked sender lists, and signatures. Then it stores everything in one compact, compressed backup file that can be easily restored when necessary. You can also schedule the backups whenever you like.
Supports the top 11 email clients: MS Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Messenger, IncrediMail, PocoMail, and others.
You can download a free trial or purchase for $39.95.
Link: AmicTools.com
Squashed Email Backup
Email Backup from Squashed Software is an easy to use, automated email backup solution for the Mac. Offers built in support for the major email applications – Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook 2011, Microsoft Entourage v.X, 2004 and 2008, Eudora and Thunderbird. Just set the configuration and it will back up your email on schedule.
Email Backup is a free download! (If you want more features, check out “Email Backup Pro” for $10.)
Link: SquashedSoftware.com
It’s worth looking at all these options, but with two completely free, highly functional pieces of software (MailStore Home and KLS Mail Backup,) how can you go wrong?
