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Old 08-13-2007, 10:05 PM   #3
xoxoxoBruce
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Speaking of Gmail, if you use Outlook as many do, especially at work...
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Sure, Outlook has got an archive feature and even a backup plugin for your personal folders (Outlook 2003/2002). But this obviously wouldn’t work if that software itself was the one that crashed, or if your computer’s hard disk bit the dust.

Enter GMail: Turns out you can configure it as a backup of sorts (and still let you use Outlook in a normal way). In GMail’s Settings > Accounts tab, you can ask it to get mails from your other email accounts, fetch and store the emails (directly to the Archived folder, bypassing the inbox), and leave a copy of the emails on the server for your Outlook to fetch later on.

The tutorial from Gmail’s Help Center has a step-bystep direction on how to do this: Link
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