The Bottom Line
You can schedule automatic backups flexibly and restore your data easily on any computer, but restoring individual messages is not so simple in Backup E-mail.
Pros
- Backup E-mail completely backs up emails, addresses, filters and more from most email programs
- Backups in Backup E-mail can be scheduled flexibly
- Backup copies created by Backup E-mail are compressed and can be password-protected
Cons
- Backup E-mail uses a proprietary protocol for its backups
- You cannot easily browse backups and only restore individual emails
- Backup E-mail does not offer command line control, scheduled backups use their own scheduler
Description
- Backup E-mail backs up and restores email client data.
- Supports Outlook, Outlook Express, Pegasus, IncrediMail, PocoMail, Eudora, The Bat, Netscape, Opera.
- In addition to emails, Backup E-mail copies settings, addresses, filters and signatures.
- Backup E-mail backups can be scheduled flexibly.
- The backup files created by Backup E-mail are compressed and can be protected with a password.
- Backup E-mail restores directly to the email client or to a custom directory for manual import.
- Backup E-mail supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP/Vista.
Guide Review - Backup E-mail 1.7 - Email Backup Tool
A new computer is marvelous. Everything is clean and fast, the registry not corrupted and the disk not cluttered. There is just one place where this virginity is not nice: the email client. Even if you managed to copy your messages, you have to set up your account and signatures and filters and settings and contacts and what not to feel home again.What usually takes hours if not days is accomplished in a minute or so if you use Backup E-mail. Using either a wizard mode or an equally easy to master tabbed interface, Backup E-mail backs up the messages, contacts, filters, signatures, blocked senders and settings of the most widely used email programs (Backup E-mail currently supports Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, IncrediMail, Pegasus Mail, PocoMail, The Bat!, Netscape and Opera).
Restoring the data either on a new computer or after an emergency destroyed the original copies is just as easy. You cannot browse the backup data and restore only certain messages, though. For perfect protection, Backup E-mail allows you to set up scheduled backups in an intelligent manner, and the backup copies are not only compressed, they can also be password-protected by Backup E-mail.
Since Backup E-mail uses a proprietary format in its backups, you'd better make sure a copy is available for restoration.
