One of the problems with email isn’t the most obvious one, like spam. No, one of the most awkward problems is just how much email many of us want to keep. Just as an example, I filter my emails from siblings into a special folder, which keeps them neat. 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?
You can read more about one particular solution at sublime-products.com.
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. Some people have many thousands of emails in their email application.
Some people keep that many because they want to access them whenever they feel like it. That’s great, but frankly most of us only need to do it once or twice a month . For me, I was running a sub-optimal system and my email application was very 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 archive email and many of them are free.
The various solutions aren’t always easy to use,however. In your own search for a solution check this list of the facilities to look out for:
1) Secure database backup
2) One click backup
3) Simple viewing of emails which have been archived
4) Rapid searching facilities
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.
Terry Hall
staffwriter