Mail and address Backup/transfer
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I still hope to make a table soon with:
- Name of files (and what the files represent)
- Location of files
Info on what files to copy for purposes of backing-up* your mail/address files or moving them to another machine. Also links to utilities to do it for you.
General:
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- Outlook Express Backup Genie. Supporting the top 9 popular email clients, Outlook Express Backup Genie is a handy utility created to easy and safe backup the email data, and to restore when neccesary. Can be used to:
-
easy transfer emails, attachments, stationary and all other
email data from one computer to an other ( from desktop to laptop and
vice-versa, or from a old computer to a new computer )
- easy transfer the email database from an old version of windows
to a new one ( backup email on old windows, install new windows and
email client, and then easy restore the emails ).
- - protection agains viruses, hdd-crashes and other problems, as
the Schedule function can be set to perform backups at specified time
intervals ( at the end of each day for example ), and if ever the user
will have a problems with his/her computer the backup will get the
email data back in no time!
- the backups can be optionally protected with password (and
strong 128bit encription).
Entourage:
- Entourage Email Archive (EEA) or Entourage Email Archive X (EEA X) is a simple and fast utility for archiving emails and attachments you have received or sent using Microsoft Entourage X in Mac OS X.
Entourage Email Archive X can archive your email in three different ways.
Eudora:
- aasBackup (for Windows) by Aaron Sherber makes backups of Eudora mailboxes, address books, .ini file, filters, signatures, stationery, spelling files, spool info, and attachments. (download). Please note that while there are no known or reported bugs, this plugin is no longer in active development.
- Eudora (Mac) tech support at Qualcomm
- Archiving Email from Mac Eudora by Mike Cohen
- Eudora (Win) tech support at Qualcomm
Outlook Express:
- Support this site!
- Outlook Express Backup Genie. Supporting the top 9 popular email clients, Outlook Express Backup Genie is a handy utility created to easy and safe backup the email data, and to restore when neccesary. Can be used to:
-
easy transfer emails, attachments, stationary and all other
email data from one computer to an other ( from desktop to laptop and
vice-versa, or from a old computer to a new computer )
- easy transfer the email database from an old version of windows
to a new one ( backup email on old windows, install new windows and
email client, and then easy restore the emails ).
- - protection agains viruses, hdd-crashes and other problems, as
the Schedule function can be set to perform backups at specified time
intervals ( at the end of each day for example ), and if ever the user
will have a problems with his/her computer the backup will get the
email data back in no time!
- the backups can be optionally protected with password (and
strong 128bit encription).
- Outlook Express Email Saver (Windows) "backup email the easy way, to any drive, with automatic scheduled backups. Save your internet favorites and address book too!"
- Outlook Email Archive for Macintosh (OEA) is a simple and fast utility for archiving emails and attachments you have received or sent using Microsoft Outlook Express.
Outlook Email Archive can archive your email in three different ways.
- Outlook Express Backup Wizard for Windows is an easy-to-use utility that allows you to backup and restore your Outlook Express data. It saves email messages, address book, message rules, list of blocked senders, accounts and signatures into a single backup file; and restores the saved data back to Outlook Express.
*Of course, you should backup your entire hard drive at least nightly!

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