For the average internet user losing your latest emails telling you about your latest Facebook friends and new YouTube subscribers may not be that much of a worry. However, for us email addicts, and business-oriented power users, if our email gets wiped for whatever reason, we flip out. Luckily it’s not that difficult to perform both offsite and onsite backups for email with very little intervention, just a few clicks of the mouse. You’ll be glad to know that these are very simple methods to follow to help protect your emails from a fried hard drive, or even nuclear warfare.
Easily backup your emails in Thunderbird with MozBackup
Mozilla Thunderbird (from the makers of Firefox) is a very popular email client, namely because it’s free and has very similar functions to that of Outlook and other email clients. Although, the ease of backing up emails is not there, well not out of the box. MozBackup is a backup tool designed to allow people to easily backup their Thunderbird emails (amongst other things).
Backing up your emails with Gmail
Do you regularly download emails using POP? If you have you’re own website, or ISP email then you probably do. An amazingly simple trick to allow you to back up every single email you ever receive is by using Gmail’s “Get mail from other accounts” feature. It’s not a heavily publicized feature as it’s buried away in the Settings section, but here’s how to go about taking advantage of it and opening up gigabytes of free email backup.