Hotmail Backup Tool for All Mailbox Emails via IMAP Server

To make an automatic Hotmail backup, please use the following instruction.

Note: Before configuring Hotmail backup, please open the IMAP Hotmail account service through the Web mailing interface, and in the account settings menu, give permission to access your Hotmail with external clients.

1. Start Handy Backup. Create a new task by control button on the panel or by the Ctrl+N keys.
2. On the Step 2, select the "E-Mail" plug-in from "Email" group on the left pane.
3. Double-click onto the "Create a connection" string. You will see the setup dialog.

4. Enter your Hotmail IMAP server settings. Start with a website service name: Imap-mail.outlook.com
   In the port number field, keep the default value: 993
5. Select "TLS" (not "StartTLS"!) from the connection type list.
6. On the "Select data…" plug-in dialog, you will see the list of your Hotmail account folders.

7. Mark/unmark the accounts and messages you will plan to back up or to exclude from backup.
8. After finishing, click OK and return to the task wizard.
9. On the Step 3, select storage where Hotmail backup all emails in this task (e.g., select the OneDrive account to make Hotmail cloud backup).

An advice: You can backup to Outlook by using the automatic Hotmail backup task described above in junction with a restoration task where you will select a new Outlook.com account as a destination. This will help you migrating from obsolete Hotmail to more modern Outlook.com!

Regularity: You will not Miss Your Hotmail Backup!

Built-in OneDrive functions for sharing documents are somehow limited. Handy Backup allows users to upload and download files online as frequently as they need, making a perfectly linked environment for synchronizing online and offline operations for working with OneDrive.

Uniformity: Backup Hotmail Mailbox as Easily as Any Other Email Service!

The same plug-in as you using as Hotmail backup software serves to copy any IMAP-related web mail services, not only the Hotmail IMAP server. In addition, you can save data from such popular email clients as Microsoft Outlook, The Bat!, Thunderbird etc., and even copy emails between clients and IMAP Hotmail.

In addition to key options listed above, Handy Backup contains other useful features to use as Hotmail backup tool, including:

• Running in "silent" mode as Windows service;
• Reporting about tasks by email or in a dedicated window;
• Running tasks missed by some reason;
• Using partial (incremental, differential and mixed) backup techniques;
• Making time stamps and saving some versions of the same dataset.

Try these and other options for utilizing Handy Backup as your trusted Hotmail backup software!
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