10 Feb 10 Archiving email

One of the problems with email isn’t the most obvious one, like spam. Actually, one of the most awkward problems is just how much email many of us want to keep. For instance, I filter my emails from siblings into a special folder, which keeps them organized. That’s great, but as they’ve grown over time they’re cluttering up my email application and making it slower. I don’t want to get rid of them, so what can I do?

Find out more about one solution at by clicking here.

If you use Mozilla Thunderbird, you’ll already know it’s free and it’s great. But if you have a lot of accounts in it and lots of incoming email, it does slow down. To use it efficiently you need to keep the number of emails in it down to a sensible level. I’ve personally had tens of thousands of emails in my copy before now.

Some people keep that many because they want to access them whenever they feel like it. That’s great, but the truth is most of us only need to access old emails once or twice a month ,at most. For me, I was running a sub-optimal system and my email application was slow Using an email backup system now gives me the best of both worlds. I can quickly search for an old email whenever I need one, but my normal email system runs fast and lean, which saves me time every day.

Well, there are several solutions to how to backup emails and many of them are free.

Some of the solutions aren’t always easy to use. In your own search for a solution here are some of the facilities to look out for:

1) One click backup

2) Secure database backup – important if you want to keep the emails for years to come!

3) Easy viewing of stored emails

4) A rapid search facility

5) Burn to cd archiving

If you do install a backup solution here’s a tip for you: delete your spam before you do the backup! There’s nothing worse than backing up a ton of spam messages. Best to get rid of them before you do the actual backup.