I will shortly be losing access to my online e-mail address provider.
Can anyone suggest a suitable reliable method of downloading all of the
accumulated e-mails for safe offline storage that will allow me to back
them up/save them in a searchable index in case I need to review/access
the information contained at a later date?

Thanks

On 14/04/16 21:02, Rob wrote:
I will shortly be losing access to my online e-mail address provider.
Can anyone suggest a suitable reliable method of downloading all of the
accumulated e-mails for safe offline storage that will allow me to back
them up/save them in a searchable index in case I need to review/access
the information contained at a later date?

Thanks
sure, install thunderbird

The mails are easily searchable by thunderbird, less easily by other means


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On 14/04/2016 21:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 14/04/16 21:02, Rob wrote:
I will shortly be losing access to my online e-mail address provider.
Can anyone suggest a suitable reliable method of downloading all of the
accumulated e-mails for safe offline storage that will allow me to back
them up/save them in a searchable index in case I need to review/access
the information contained at a later date?

Thanks
sure, install thunderbird

The mails are easily searchable by thunderbird, less easily by other means

+1

Download all your mails into thunderbird using either IMAP or POP3,
which ever you fancy, then backup the thunderbird email disk area as
simple files.

I think I've got about 15G of email in thunderbird, and it's backed up
offsite. The search facility is pretty good, though obviously dependent
on disk speed.

"Rob" wrote in message
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I will shortly be losing access to my online e-mail address provider. Can
anyone suggest a suitable reliable method of downloading all of the
accumulated e-mails for safe offline storage that will allow me to back
them up/save them in a searchable index in case I need to review/access
the information contained at a later date?

Simplest approach is to get a gmail account and get it
suck up all the old emails before you lose access to it.

I think one of the issues here is that for example on Virgin, there seems to
be two stores, the pop3 one and the webmail one. When you download the pop3
one and delete them from the server, they seem to remain on the webmail for
ever.
So whay would be needed in this case would be a way to get every email from
webmail. it couldbe that a program exists to do this or maybe via IMAP, if
that uses the same list.
Brian

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On 14/04/16 21:02, Rob wrote:
I will shortly be losing access to my online e-mail address provider.
Can anyone suggest a suitable reliable method of downloading all of the
accumulated e-mails for safe offline storage that will allow me to back
them up/save them in a searchable index in case I need to review/access
the information contained at a later date?

Thanks
sure, install thunderbird

The mails are easily searchable by thunderbird, less easily by other means


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"I am inclined to tell the truth and dislike people who lie consistently.
This makes me unfit for the company of people of a Left persuasion, and
all women"

On 14/04/2016 23:16, Clive George wrote:
On 14/04/2016 21:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 14/04/16 21:02, Rob wrote:
I will shortly be losing access to my online e-mail address provider.
Can anyone suggest a suitable reliable method of downloading all of the
accumulated e-mails for safe offline storage that will allow me to back
them up/save them in a searchable index in case I need to review/access
the information contained at a later date?

Thanks
sure, install thunderbird

The mails are easily searchable by thunderbird, less easily by other
means

+1

Download all your mails into thunderbird using either IMAP or POP3,
which ever you fancy, then backup the thunderbird email disk area as
simple files.

Note that if you have folders setup in the mailbox you will have to use
IMAP to download those.



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I suspect the emails are still on the server because you have told your
email client to leave them there.

In some or all clients you could set it up so email is downloaded using
POP3 and deleted as soon as it is downloaded. But that's risky. For
example, if your disk fails before you have backed it up you lose the
recent emails. Leaving a copy on the server is also a way of using POP3
with more than one computer.

You might also opt to have email which is downloaded removed from the
server after N days so as to allow time for backups.

Anyhow, if the emails are still on the server those in the inbox can be
downloaded again simply by setting up the account afresh (e.g. on
another computer). As John Rumm pointed out though this won't fetch any
in other folders.


On 15/04/2016 10:37, Brian Gaff wrote:
I think one of the issues here is that for example on Virgin, there seems to
be two stores, the pop3 one and the webmail one. When you download the pop3
one and delete them from the server, they seem to remain on the webmail for
ever.
So whay would be needed in this case would be a way to get every email from
webmail. it couldbe that a program exists to do this or maybe via IMAP, if
that uses the same list.
Brian



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