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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:44:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: How do I back up my e-mails from free online mail accounts?
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March 5, 2010
How do I back up my e-mails from free online mail accounts?
Dear CNET members,
Happy Friday! Before we dive into the question from Isabelle on how to
back up e-mails from Web-based e-mail services, I'd like to introduce
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Now, moving along to backing up those Yahoo Mail and Gmail e-mails.
Well, Isabelle, our community members has come through for you in a
huge way, giving you a lot of advice on how you can back up your
Web-based e-mails. The most popular advice suggests using POP3 (Post
Office Protocol 3) that allows you to link your online e-mail account
to an e-mail client like Outlook, Outlook Express, or Thunderbird. It
will allow you to transfer all your e-mails to your computer's hard
drive, and then you can decide what you want to do with them. Most
online e-mail clients offer this service; some are free and some come
at a small cost. It's a great, simple process, and many folks use this
method. For those of you who aren't familiar with POP3 and what it
does, here is fairly simple explanation from Answers.com.
There are a few other methods mentioned by members, ranging from the
traditional copying and pasting important e-mails to setting up an
auto forwarding rule to another e-mail address. So give the answers
all a read and find what works best for you. I have a few selected
answers in the Q&A section to start. I hope they help! Thanks everyone
for your time and contributions. Have a great weekend!
Cheers!
- Lee
Got suggestions? Send me an e-mail: messageboards@cnet.com
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Last week's question
How do I back up my e-mails from free online Yahoo Mail and Gmail accounts?
[image: Question]Over the past several years I have been depending on
free online Yahoo mail and Gmail accounts for my everyday e-mails.
I've been lucky thus far of not losing anything yet, but I'm weary
about it as friend told me that free email services aren't trustworthy
as anything can go wrong and there are no recourse if my accounts were
suddenly to disappear or somehow get compromised because they are
free.
Now that this has got me really concerned, I would like to back up all
my e-mails from these free online e-mail accounts, but I really have
no clue as to how to go about it. Can your members help me out and
give me some step-by-step instructions on how I can get this
accomplished for both Yahoo mail and Gmail? I would like to be able to
store them on my computer and retrieve them once I have established a
nonfree online service. I would be most grateful for this help.
-- Submitted by: Isabelle W.
[image: Answer]Featured member solutions
for last week's question:
"Backing up online e-mail "
-- Submitted by: TMSAssoc
"Gmail offers these options for backing up data "
-- Submitted by: davidwinget
"Archiving Yahoo e-mail "
-- Submitted by: JamesJ
"Methods for backing up free online e-mail "
-- Submitted by: caue.rego
"POP3"
-- Submitted by: darrenforster99
"A lot to say, true/false "
-- Submitted by: DADSGETNDOWN
"Free e-mail backup "
-- Submitted by: RayGauthier
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