Email Box Backup

Handy Backup allows you to back up your mail directly from the mail server. You may want to use this feature if you don't have a mail client installed on your computer and you use online mail service via web browser. In order to skip such steps as downloading your web service's website and entering the mail account, you can simply use the mail backup feature of Handy Backup to retrieve your mail from the remote mail server.

To back up your mail directly from the remote mail server, complete the following steps:

Open Handy Backup application
Click File menu on the Main Menu toolbar
Select New Task from the dropdown list
The New Task Wizard will open
In Step1: Task Type, select Backup Task by marking the checkbox
In Step 2: What to backup, click the Add tab.
Select Email Messages from the list that launches and click it

The Connection Parameters dialog will appear.
In the Connection Parameters dialog, enter your POP3 Mail Server address, user name, account password, and a path to restore.

Handy Backup needs you to specify the restore path for your messages because POP3 protocol does not allow restoring mail messages back to the server.
Type the Path to restore manually, or use the Browse tab to specify where you would like to restore your backup mail. You can restore your mail to any location either locally or on the network or any other storage media of your choice.

After you have filled in all the fields, you can make use of the Check settings tab to see if the settings you provided for the mail server are correct. Handy Backup will verify your settings and inform you about the results.
If the settings are correct, click OK. Handy Backup will add your mail to the backup set.

Note 1: POP3 protocol allows backing up only incoming messages of your mailbox. If you want to back up other messages stored in your mailbox you can transfer them to the Incoming folder and back them up as if they were incoming.

Note 2: Make sure your mail server supports POP3. Most mail servers do, but if you are not quite sure, you can find this information on the server's web site.

After you have added data to the backup set, you can proceed with the backup task creation in a regular way. For details, see the User Manual.