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Back-up of mail

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Good evening,
How back-up the mail when another software than Windows mail is used ?

With Mozilla Thunderbird the files are in the roaming directory and not easy to find and back-up.
Is it possible to add the back-up any mail software not only Windows Mail ?
Thanks in advance.

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No, the email backup relies on specific registry, APIs and email settings valid for specific email applications like MS Outlook, Windows Live Mail, etc.

With Thunderbird, you should us a file backup of the email folders. If the file backup completes, verify that you can restore effectively these folders (for example, stop automatic sending/receiving in Thunderbird, quite the app, rename temporarily the current folders and do a complete restore, and restart Thunderbird).

An approach I use but it may not suit you is to leave the messages on the ISP's server after they have been downloaded to the PC client. The messages on the server form the backup. Downside is you do have to go in every now and then and clean the unwanted ones out.