Review: Dropmyemail backs up your email effortlessly

November 06, 2012

As the saying goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat—or perhaps that should be, there's more than one way to back up your inbox and email archive. If you use Gmail, you can download it all to your computer for free with GmVault. If you're looking for a cloud-based solution that also takes care of your calendar data and contacts, you could use Spanning Backup. But if you only want your emails backed up, and don't want to download them to your computer, then Dropmyemail ($10-$70 per year,15-day free trial) may be what you need. Dropmyemail is Web-based, so there's nothing to download. It can back up any POP or IMAP email account, so you are not limited to using it only with Gmail. However, since many people use Gmail and Google Apps, Dropmyemail makes Gmail backup extra-easy. You can log in using your existing Google account, so there's no need to open a new account and remember yet another password. Once you're logged in, it only takes a couple of clicks to grant Dropmyemail permission into your email archive. This was one of the few confusing parts in using Dropmyemail: I got an error message that told me to click a button "to the right," but there was no button there. I ended up clicking the large, obvious green button in another part of the window that said "Sign in with Google," (even though I was already logged in) and that did the trick. Dropmyemail's file manager lets you easily browse attachments without having to look through email threads. Once you let Dropmyemail into your inbox, there's not much left for you to do: A progress bar starts filling up as Dropmyemail downloads your archive. Since the process is happening remotely, you can close the window or even shut down your computer--backup will keep happening. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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