Have seen quite a few threads about lost emails, archiving problems etc.

Saw this and wondered if it might be of use ......

MailStore Home - The Free E-mail Archiving Solution

MailStore Home enables you to backup all your e-mail messages from multiple applications into one persistent and safe archive. You can import your mail from Outlook, Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Exchange, as well as POP/IMAP accounts and local files. You read your mail from within the interface, search fast through all your messages by keyword and advanced criteria, and even burn a Backup CD with the click of a button or export messages to .eml format. Messages are stored MIME-compatible, and can be recovered at any time without information loss.

License:FreewareVersion:2.0File Size:13.5 MBWindows:2000/XP/2003/Vista

and a sort of tutorial :-

Solutions - How To Backup Your Email With MailStore Home

"There are a lot of ways to backup your email, but most are specific to a specific kind of email account or a specific program, which limits their usefulness if you have several email accounts. One that isn't however, and with work with most, if not all, of your acounts is MailStore Home. MailStore Home is a free program for Windows that will backup and catalogue your email from an unlimited number of accounts. It supports Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, Windows Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, and MBOX files, and it can also download messages from any POP3 or IMAP account, which means you can use it with remote mail servers including some webmail services and (possibly) your work email. "

Note - I haven't tried it myself.

Might have a play. Cheers mate!

nice one, cheers

That's going to be really useful

One downfall it doesnt import items in your deleted items bin, which is where i store all my emails in outlook.

But its free and works well, i just dumped them in my inbox and run the program, then put them back.

Great WYSIWYG interface.

Nice program and very handy.

One downfall it doesnt import items in your deleted items bin, which is where i store all my emails in outlook.

But its free and works well, i just dumped them in my inbox and run the program, then put them back.

Great WYSIWYG interface.

Nice program and very handy.

deleted items is not the place to store emails you want to keep :confused: the clue's in the name...

deleted items is not the place to store emails you want to keep :confused: the clue's in the name...

deleted items is not the place to store emails you want to keep :confused: the clue's in the name...

Yeah I was wondering about that. Why would you do that?

Ive always used my deleted bin as a place to store my emails. Inbox is for new mail.

Ive always used my deleted bin as a place to store my emails. Inbox is for new mail.

Seriously? What's wrong with folders?

What if you accidentally empty the deleted items one day?

Seriously? What's wrong with folders?

What if you accidentally empty the deleted items one day?

thing is, it's not that uncommon, i've seen a few people at work using deleted items to store the email they want to keep and i've never understood the logic behind it. but it's not as bad as people calling to ask why, after reading an email, it's no longer in their unread items folder...gah

We have done countless server migrations and when doing a global transfer of emails, normally, we would exclude the usually excessively large deleted items folders from all users mailboxes. We had to change this when numerous customers started complaining of lost emails. For a lot of people, it's not even because they don't know how to create new folders. Many people have entire folder structures in and below the deleted items folder. It really does my fruit in, and I find it so difficult to comprehend :eek::eek::eek:

My Deleted Items folder currently has Zero, 0, zilch items in it, and it will stay that way until I "delete" something that I want to "delete" because i don't want it any more, and I want it to be "Deleted", and never to be seen again !!

I had a home user once who used the Windows recycle bin as a storage are for imprtant stuff. WTF??