CNET Editors' review
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 5.0.1.6919 has improved more detailed screen messages while compacting oder upgrading the archive and error "Cannot transliterate between character sets" while upgrading has been fixed.
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4.0 starsout of 42 votes
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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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"This was an update"
Version: MailStore Home 4.1.1.5187
Pros
I like the ability to backup my email files
Cons
I've only used it once, but didn't note any problems.
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"works well"
Version: MailStore Home 4.1.1.5187
Pros
works well, no hassles
Cons
none to speak of
Summary
good storage program for all your email needs
Updated on Jan 13, 2011 -
"Great software"
Version: MailStore Home 4.0.0.3493
Pros
Simple to use
Cons
Could do with smoothing out the edges and refiningit a bit. Am awaiting version 5 which as I understand it is a little overdue in it's release..
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"NOT user friendly at all."
Version: MailStore Home 4.0.0.3493
Pros
I like that it only crashed my system 4 out of 5 times that I "tried" to use it.
Cons
How about adding a SIMPLE restore function.
Summary
If you are looking for an email backup program... Keep looking! If I'd have gotten a decent reply out of their customer support, maybe things would turn out better, but this software is ONLY good at being difficult and cryptic at best!
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