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Back up your emails with Microsoft Outlook Express | Microsoft Outlook Express | Mozilla Thunderbird

To back up Microsoft Outlook Express

Click on the TOOLS Menu and select OPTIONS.
Click the MAINTENANCE Tab and then click on Store Folder.
You now see the location of your Email Folder.
Highlite the Folder Location and press CTRL+C to copy the location.
Click Cancel and then Cancel again to close all boxes.
Click the Windows Start button and the click Run. In the open box press CTRL+V to paste the mail location, then click OK.
You now have a window containing you e-mail database *.dbx files.
From the top Menu click EDIT click Select All.
On the top Menu again click COPY. Now close the window.
Open Windows Explorer, click FILE / NEW and then FOLDER.
Type a name for the folder and hit ENTER.
Double click the Folder you just created to open it. From the EDIT Menu select PASTE. Close the window.
You have now completed a backup up of your email messages.

To back up Microsoft Outlook

To create a copy of your mail, contacts, calendar and other data in Outlook for backup or copying: Go to your Outlook folder in Windows Explorer.

1. Highlight all files ending in ".pst".
2. Make sure in particular your selection includes "outlook.pst" and "archive.pst".
3. Select Edit | Copy from the menu to copy them.
4. Open the folder where you want to put your backup copies in Windows Explorer.

Ideally, this will be on another computer, on a removable disk stored far away from your home, somewhere on the Internet, or at least on a different hard disk. Select Edit | Paste from the menu to paste your .pst files to the backup location

To back up Mozilla Thunderbird

The best way to back up your Thunderbird email is by downloading the Mozilla Backup, you can also back up your Mozilla firefox Browser preferences too! To download Mozilla backup please Click Here.

Please follow these instruction to complete the back up:
The welcome screen will open; click Next. MozBackup will switch to the Operation Type screen: from there, choose Backup a profile, and select Thunderbird from the applications listed; click Next.

The next screen, "Profile selection", lets you choose which profile to backup: you will probably see just one profile, "default". Select it, and click the Browse button; pick the folder where you want to place your backup file. (You can also take this opportunity to name the backup file as you like.) Click Save, and Next.

Enter a MozBackup passwordMozBackup will then offer you the option to password-protect your backup file, why not choose yes - just in case.

The next screen lets you pick which files to backup. We recommend that you pick at least emails and address books, and certificates (if any).

MozBackup backing up Thunderbird's default profileClick Next, and MozBackup will store backup information in the file your determined earlier.

The duration of the backup process will mainly depend on the amount of emails you have.

If you backed up your profile on your computer, it might be a good idea to store a copy of the file on an FTP server. (It is probably not feasible to email yourself the file to a free webmail account, as these backup files can get very large.