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Tip of the Day: Use Local Folders to Avoid Email Loss

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Will Backing Up My Computer Back Up My Email?

To back up your email, you first have to figure out where it lives. It might be on your computer, or it might be on the internet.

How to Move Email Messages to Another Account

When changing email providers, old email can be difficult to move. I’ll look at some of the options.

How Should I Back Up Email?

Configuring a PC-based email program to use IMAP and have it constantly download email as a backup is a reasonable way to go.

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Back Up Your Email Using Thunderbird

If your email only lives in your inbox online, it’s not backed up. I’ll show you how to use a free program to download a full copy of your email to your own computer, plus how to save your contacts. That way, a hacked account never means losing everything.

How Do I Back Up Email to an External Hard Disk using Outlook?

Backing up or archiving portions of your email collected in Outlook is pretty easy with one basic concept: creating and opening your own PST files.