One of the popular options is that you use a tool like Microsoft Outlook to download all your emails to the computer beforehand and you can then read them anywhere even in offline mode. Both Gmail and Hotmail offer POP3 access to help you download messages using any email client while there are easy workarounds for Yahoo Mail.
There are some downsides though. First, most email clients aren’t portable (can you carry emails on a USB drive?) and second, if all you want is offline access to your Gmail messages and nothing extra, Outlook is probably too heavy a tool for that purpose.
An utility called MailStore that seems like an ideal solution for such a problem – the tool is free, there’s a portable version for your USB stick and best of all, it works out of the box with your email account without requiring any configuration.
Step by Step – How to Backup your Emails
The way MailStore works is something like this. You install (or unzip) the software to a folder and then select the email accounts that you want to archive. They can be your Gmail accounts, Microsoft Exchange, your old Outlook PST files, Thunderbird and any other web email service that supports either IMAP or POP3.
Related:
Wondering how to transfer contacts from one Outlook account to another? Microsoft Outlook stores your contacts in its .pst, or personal folders, files. You can transfer contacts between .pst files on the same computer or even a different computer with the .pst file.
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/114969.aspx#ixzz1MLj4BpwX
You must be logged in to post a comment.