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There's much to admire in this e-mail archiver that reads like your offline in-box, but searches stored files much faster than good-ol' Outlook. MailStore Home supports a long list of mail servers, replicating and backing up messages in a straightforward interface--complete with folder tree and reading pane. There's also a start screen to jump to archiving, burning archives to disk, advanced search, and administrator tools. Small navigational icons along the top of the app kick-start these tasks after you've left the start screen behind.
The program's management is straightforward. When you archive an in-box, a wizard walks you through special configuration steps and lets you enter folders to archive or exclude if you want some backed up, but not all. MailStore Home skips your spam, trash, and junk folders by default, and it checks for duplicate messages while going about its business.
Its blink-of-an-eye search feature comes in two forms: a simple field in the side bar, and an advanced search screen from which you can drill down to specifics--dates, folders, even the contents of e-mail attachments. You can also save queries to rerun at a later time, and enter Boolean search terms. After retrieving the message, you'll see management options like opening, saving, and exporting. You're even able to reply to archived Web mail messages via your offline in-box--just be patient.
The inevitable drawbacks are these: there's no autoarchiving or scheduling, so archiving is a manual activity. Initial scanning also takes a considerable length of time, and subsequent archives of the same in-box (click "run" to rearchive) start over from scratch instead of offering you the option to pick up from the most recent message date. It's missing the more nimble filters found in rival Outlook add-ons, like filtering by e-mails with attachments. MailStore Home also restricts you to three account profiles, a handicap if you've got more active accounts than that. Despite these drawbacks, MailStore Home offers a fine free solution for storing e-mail from multiple in-boxes and searching through the archives.
Publisher's Description
From MailStore:
MailStore Home is a solution for people who have a need to backup their e-mails in a straightforward and simple fashion. It works with all POP3 and IMAP accounts, as well as Thunderbird, Outlook, Exchange Server, and Windows Mail. MailStore Home offers a simple three step process for backing up your e-mail accounts. Once you've downloaded and installed it, open it, click on import, enter the settings for your particular account, and double-click your newly created e-mail profile. Once the backup is created, you can leave it in MailStore, export it to .eml, or burn it to a CD or DVD.
What's new in this version: Version 8.0.5 has added support for the latest Microsoft Office 365.
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"Undisclosed limitation of archiving only 3 IMAP accts"
Version: MailStore Home 8.0.2
Pros
The application has lots of promise - it is easy to add email accounts for archiving. Archiving is quick and easy.
Cons
What the developer failed to disclose, even on their website, is that you can only have 3 IMAP profiles in MailStore. If you have more than 3 IMAP profiles, you get an error "MailStore Home is limited to 3 IMAP Archiving Profiles. Please delete one or more profiles and try again." The thing that is most annoying about this is that this limitation is not disclosed anywhere.
Summary
Undisclosed limitation of the number of IMAP profiles that can be archived is deceptive and is the reason for giving MailStore Home 2 stars.
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"For the price, you can't beat this product."
Version: MailStore Home 8.0.2
Pros
Easily configurable.
Works quickly.
Maintains e-mail and attachments for future reference.Cons
None that I can think of.
Summary
I use this to archive my E-mail and remove it from my clients about every three months. I just move everything to archive, then when I have time, I delete all the junk I don't want to keep right from the program. This keeps my client free and available for new mail, and allows me to dispose of junk when I have time.
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"Good design, but doesn't work properly with Gmail"
Version: MailStore Home 7.1
Pros
Simple interface, easy to install.
Cons
Gmail profile does not offer to remove archived emails from gmail. Using IMAP it does not correctly remove email from gmail when archived.
Summary
Doesn't work properly with Gmail.
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"Installs paid server version, not free home version"
Version: MailStore Home 7.0
Pros
None at all, waste of time uninstalling wrong program version, obtaining/installing correct version.
Cons
This download article is entitled "Mailstore Home", which is a free program. What you get is Mailstore Server, a paid program that runs a server service and attempts to activate Windows Firewall and configure it (if you choose not to use Windows Firewall, be aware of this attempt and disable it during the install).
Summary
If you want the home version actually indicated by the review article, check the name of the CNet installer or direct download installer file. If it still includes the word "Server" (as of 05/16/2012 it still does) go to the Mailstore.com website and obtain the correct install file there. Here's a direct link: http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx
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"good storage for emails"
Version: MailStore Home 4.2.1.6501
Pros
works well for me
Cons
none that I can find
Summary
good program
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"Excellent program."
Version: MailStore Home 4.2.0.5431
Pros
Simple to use, straight forward program.
Cons
None that I have found, so far.
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"works great"
Version: MailStore Home 4.2.0.5431
Pros
Does what they say it will do.
Cons
None that I can see.
Summary
Handy tool to have!
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"works well with
does what it is supposed to do."Version: MailStore Home 4.2.0.5431
Pros
works well with Mozila thunderbird
Cons
none that I can find
Summary
good program , works well
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"Mailstore works very well"
Version: MailStore Home 4.2.0.5431
Pros
I'm able to back up my mail, and it is dependably there when I need it.
Cons
I don't know any cons at this time.
Summary
I would recommend Mailstore
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"It does exactly what it says it does."
Version: MailStore Home 4.1.1.5187
Pros
Easy to use and saves everything to where you want.
Cons
Just a little learninng curve.
Summary
I recomend this for anyone who has lost emails to a crash. That will be a thing of the past. If you use the backup.
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