How do you back up your e-mail? This is a fairly common question, and I don't have a good answer. Well, I have the sandard answer, which is to back up the email files. However, I'm generally not impressed by e-mail software's database and search capabilities, and there are other problems -- people change their e-mail software, and their PCs, and often they use more than one type of e-mail service.
I think the best solution is to move e-mail to a separate archive designed for the job, and this also enables e-mail from different services to be consolidated. If you do this, which program do you use?
Do you have a better solution? Is there a free solution?
I tackled this problem in the early 90s, and arrived at AskSam, partly because it had import filters for CompuServe e-mail. I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has tried it. I'd also be particularly interested if anyone is using Filemaker.
