Worried about keeping your email archives online? Need a simple and free tool to backup your emails? If so, then read further. Here you go, five free and different utilities to handle email backups:
Windows only email backup utility that lets you backup all your emails from multiple email accounts and programs into one secure and searchable archive. Import and manage messages from Gmail, Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, POP/IMAP accounts and many other mail programs: search through emails, remove duplicate attachments, one-click backup, etc.

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For Thunderbird users only. MozBackup is a dead-simple utility to backup and restore your Thunderbird profiles, emails, installed extensions and settings. Quick and easy. It can do the same for Firefox as well.

Unlike the above two GmailUploader is a not a backup tool. It’s basically an online service to upload locally stored mailbox files to your Gmail account. If you have switched to Gmail only recently (from Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.) and need an easy way to import years old downloaded messages to your Gmail account than GmailUploader is the tool you need. It’s the only free tool you’ll find.

Backup and restore your profile settings, emails, address book, message filters, signatures, blocked senders, etc. It works with 9 popular email clients including MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express, Eudora, Pegasus, The Bat, PocoMail, Netscape Messenger, Opera Mail, and Incredimail. Please note that the backup can be restored only to the same type of email program from which it was created.
Backup Outlook Express messages, message rules, preferences, blocked senders, signatures, stationery, Windows Address Book, Internet Explorer settings, and your Windows Favorites.

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Amic Email Backup looks pretty cool. What’s your fav. one? Which one would you recommend for Outlook Ex.?
Sorry, I use thunderbird, so can’t really help you here. Nevertheless, both Mailstore, Amic Email Backup, and Oulook Express Backup seem to work just fine. The only major difference, Mailstore backs up your data to a CD while other two to a file.
Aibek,
I thought that the following might be useful as I recently consolidated my outlook archives and backups into Gmail using the the new IMAP feature in Gmail and Thunderbird.
After turning on IMAP and configuring Thunderbird
(http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/turn-thunderbird-into-the-ultimate-gmail-imap-client-314574.php)
I just imported my outlook archives into thunderbird
(http://lifehacker.com/340521/import-outlook-pst-files-into-thunderbird-with-pst-import)
and at that point, you can drag and drop folders of messages into the appropriate folder in Gmail.
I enjoy using Thunderbird but really, you can do this using any IMAP client. This way, you can have archives locally and online. Hope this is helpful to someone.
Excellent tip. I had completely missed this new IMAP support feature. Apparently, back in November, it was all over the web. :-(.
Thanks for heads up
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