Handy Backup is an automatic email backup software, offering efficient and secure solution for email archiving. This robust software effortlessly backs up emails from both webmail services and local email clients, facilitating quick and hassle-free saving. With Handy Backup, users can easily manage mail backups from any web server or local system, enhancing the convenience of email import and migration between email services.
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The program lets you retrieve e-mail messages directly from the webmail service. So you can perform Microsoft 365 Outlook, Gmail, AOL or Yahoo mail backup. This technique allows using a dedicated Email plugin for Webmail IMAP backup.
After you made mail backup, you can either restore it to an original place, or move it to a different mailbox, or even to a completely different mail address that you have. Use this feature freely to clone or to transfer your e-mail backup data.
With Handy Backup, you can secure data and settings of most popular e-mail management applications used today: perform Outlook backup or create Windows Live Mail backups, Thunderbird backup and others.
Handy Backup allows utilizing almost any modern storage to backup email messages, including local drives, external drives and network disks, FTP or SFTP servers, commercial clouds (e.g. Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive), as well as S3- or WebDAV-driven private and public cloud services.
Handy Backup allows you to automate your email data backups, setting them to occur at regular intervals, ranging from minutes to months. Additionally, you can trigger backups based on specific system events, such as when a user logs on or off, or when a designated USB drive is connected to your computer. This flexibility ensures that your email data is backed up according to your personal or business needs.
Access without recovery! Handy Backup keeps unencrypted email backup messages in the native, readable EML format, allowing browsing and viewing these messages just from backups, without recovering, as well as making migration from server to server or from account to account readily available.
Handy Backup has a comprehensible task-based interface which allows email archiving either as a separate task, or as a part of a bigger data retention scheme. In Handy Backup, tasks may include data of different types (files, folders, databases, etc.) into a backup dataset.
To back up incoming messages from a mail server through IMAP, please follow the next instruction.
Note: Do not forget allowing Handy Backup using your account as an IMAP email backup client.
Then create a new task as described in the User Manual. You can schedule a task and give it multiple other properties: full or incremental backup, compression, encryption, and other.
To use Handy Backup as an e-mail backup solution for local clients (e.g. to backup Outlook Express, The Bat! or Thunderbird), copy the corresponding files and folders via the Computer plug-in.
Tip! For different email clients, these are different locations for local email content downloaded via the POP3 protocol.
Besides the obvious benefits of dedicated email backup solution, like scheduling, data encryption, automating backups, recovery and cloning and so on, these are the specific advantages of Handy Backup, providing the best way to backup email content.
Note: To connect with a particular server, you can select its settings from a previously established connection via some local email client (in the “Properties” section of a config tab), or just ask Google or some other searching engine about these settings.
For detailed help about an IMAP-based email backup solution, please refer to User Manual. See the full list of backup features of our software.
This video example will show how to backup email with Handy Backup. It will show all flexibility and might of this solution by migrating a Yahoo!Mail to Outlook. Com. See how convenient and comfortable you can make a copy of your mailbox with this email backup software!
Capterra′s Rating:
"Great product, very simple and effective backup program"
"In my opinion, Handy Backup is a perfect email backup solution. A few years ago, I have organized IMAP email backup through its “E-mail” plug-in for the version 7, and since that time, I migrated to Handy Backup 8 and transferred my email backup tasks as well. All tasks are working for now, without any flaw or mishap, and I always have a secured, reliable copy of all my Web mail accounts."
Mohammad Jardun, a software manager, Singapore