MailStore Home for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffFebruary 2, 2015

MailStore Home allows you to back up your email program to a digital archive or onto physical media like a USB stick, so you can be sure that you'll never lose vital emails.

Pros

Easy import: Importing your email into MailStore Home is easy and quick. You can access a webmail account, use an email client, or use email files such as an MBOX file to create your archive inside the program.

Export options: If you want to export your archive, you have a number of options that you can utilize when doing so. This is valuable for people who want to move a significant amount of email from one account to another. You can import it into this program and then export it into a different client. Options include popular email formats such as an exchange or IMAP mailbox.

Search email: In our tests, the search function worked very well, and we found exactly what we were looking for.

Cons

No in-app help: This app deals with a number of fairly complicated operations, so we were frustrated when clicking the help icon only redirected us to the website support page.

Bottom Line

MailStore Home successfully archives messages, which protects against data loss and also makes searching your backlogged email much easier.

What’s new in version 8.2.1

Version 8.2.1 adds support for the latest Microsoft Office 365 update (Exchange Server 15.1).

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: January 30, 2015

Latest update: February 2, 2015

Version: 8.2.1

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 8
Windows 10
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7

Additional Requirements: .NET Framework Version 3.5 SP1

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 121,117

Downloads Last Week: 4

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User Reviews

3.9/5

52 User Votes

Worked well but but takes 1 to 25 seconds per email.
4jerry444October 22, 2016
Pros
Worked well but but takes 1 to 25 seconds per email download. Showed complete emails when requested.
Cons
After having downloaded ~400Mb of emails sucessfully, I returned to download more and received a message that "your USB stick is corrupted, please click here to restore files" from the computer. The computer spent 1and 1/2 hours grinding away and then froze. So all the stored amils were lost along with everything on the USB stick.
Summary
Hope to find what caused the corruption and freez.
Does what it has to do.
EYES-TJanuary 18, 2015
Pros
Stores mails in a separate folder which never gets skipped by backup programs and you can easily move the mails from different mail clients to another. And it's free! What do you need more??
Cons
None so far.
Summary
Good program for everyone who wants to keep their mail in a safe place.
10/10 Would shag
sunmax2July 20, 2014
Pros
Would bang
Cons
No pass !!
Summary
Would smash
Excellent for my needs
howardfernsJanuary 2, 2014
Pros
I wanted to close my Gmail account that I no longer use, but save the emails without exporting them all to my new webmail provider, not least because they would lose their original dates, they would only show the date I transferred them. So I easily installed the portable version of MailStore in Copy.com (cloud and sync) and then all it took to archive my emails was to enter my Gmail address and password into it. Not only were about 1200 emails transferred in a few minutes, but the original folders were retained, too - that was very pleasing, I wasn't expecting it. Those mails are now very easily accessible for reference, with a great search feature too, without me having to find a Google page and log on each time I want to look at any.
Cons
The software took a bit of finding. Most suggestions I found online (searching with DuckDuckGo, not you-know-who) said to to transfer emails to Outlook, which wasn't really the solution I was looking for. I only found out about MailStore in an obscure way, it was mentioned in one of the comments on a blog post on the subject.
Summary
Little to do with the above, but thought I'd mention that while I was poking about in my Google account looking for closing it (they don't make it easy to find!) I discovered there were two outfits listed as having access to my basic account. Glad to have quit!
Does not function.
jtellerelsbergNovember 23, 2013
Pros
Looks good in theory.
Cons
Will not open.
Summary
I ran the install, but nothing comes of it. A folder with files was created in the Programs folder (Windows here). But it is not listed under Start > All Programs, and when I try manually running it by going to its folder and clicking the .exe, I get an error message that it can't do anything. Too bad for me.
Solid as a rock
jurgfellaOctober 31, 2013
Pros
Been using this free software for probably five or six years now, and in my experience, it's solid as a rock. Have never had problems, and one friend who had her index corrupted was fine after we rebuilt it.
Cons
Get many duplicates if you index both your mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird) and your underlying account (Gmail). No way to de-dupe these if they were indexed separately.
Summary
This free email archiver is solid as rock, and has not let me down in many years. I also found that I could keep different computers in synch just by setting the mailstore folder as one that I do synch (just don't synch while the program is running).
Finally! An easy way to archive web mail!!!
jgpuckeringSeptember 10, 2013
Pros
Provides an excellent way to archive web-based mail. Works with Yahoo. Supports IMAP, allowing access to folders (not just Inbox). Allows including or excluding specific folders. User-defined profiles provide reusable configurations. Nice ease of use features like a Create Shortcut button for profiles and a Test button for connections. Excellent integration with Mozilla Thunderbird. Search is blazingly fast.
Cons
Configuring IMAP access can be a bit tricky if you are a novice user, though MailStore has made it about as easy as it can be. You need to lookup the parameters your Internet service provider recommends and use those. Occasionally seems to stall while archiving large volumes of email in folders, though possibly the problem was at the IMAP server end (Yahoo) rather than MailStore itself. Fortunately, you can cancel and run it again and it quickly goes through the mail it's already archived and then begins working on the remaining mail. Does not allow access to MailStore data directories on a remote drive. I'm not sure why the product has this restriction -- likely to prevent performance complaints. But I have a gigabit LAN and a NAS at home and would like to keep my archive on its redundant storage rather than on my local drive. The developer (or dev team) should rethink this limitation.
Summary
Overall, this product is brilliant. Were it not for the occasional stalling during archiving, causing my to have to cancel and restart, I'd give it 5 starts. Mind you, once I archived all my email more than a year old (over 1 Gb), it now runs very fast when I run it every few days. If you have been keeping hordes of email on someone's web server and want to archive it in case it's needed at some future, this is the tool for you.
Not bad if you don't mind malware and browser take-over
DryB0nesJune 27, 2013
Pros
Meh. Used to work nicely - will begrudgingly go to Outlook for backup
Cons
Bundle downloads sweetpack - Be ForeWarned
Summary
Undisclosed limitation of archiving only 3 IMAP accts
tahlekiMay 8, 2013
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.
For the price, you can't beat this product.
HGHUDAHAR1March 30, 2013
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.

Developer’s Description

By MailStore Software

Archive and back up e-mail messages and attachments.