Do you take backup of your email box?

Hi! Mimpi! I also do not keep any arrangement for back up data of my email inbox, which we should have, I suppose. I read an article about the same few days ago and it was written over there that we should have some back up data of our important email because if we lose the email account all of a sudden, we will be in soup. One of the alternate is that we can forward our important emails to our another email account of different service provider, so that in case one account does not work, we can rely on the other one. Thanks for reminding us, I'll try to do something about back up mail. Also, if you get any useful information through this post, please do let me know.

I have two email addresses; one is a G mail account and the other is my personal Microsoft address with my provider. When it comes to hackers I don't know which one of the two is safer but I use my Microsoft email for important documents etc... And that one has the bulk of my contacts in it and I do back that one up every week. I don't keep anything of great importance in my emails but certainly my contacts' information is precious. It's such a shame that even on line we're not safe. I am very sorry for your friend I can't imagine how upsetting an incident like that can be!

I had a glitch in my gmail account this morning and it has been set alright now. And keeping all your bank accounts details, Card details and my scanned certificates and all personal data online.God! it will tempt even the most honest man to break in Mimpi.

I did not know that there was any free email backup software. If I had this problem I would loose all my data because I have not kept any backup of my email box and would not know how to do it either.

Oh hope your friend has recovered her data. I dont think I have backup of my inbox. If Gmail or Yahoo has an automatic backup feature then I guess I have but otherwise I only have one copy of everything. I also have multiple gmail accounts. There is the one that I use for online banking and there is the one that I regularly use for myLot and other online sites. The most important information that I probably have in my inbox would be the information on my joined sites. I try to keep those important things at a minimum so in case something happens they wont get any from me.^_^ Of course, it cannot be helped that there be important info posted or kept in one's inbox.

I have never taken any back up of my e-mail account. I just save any attachments if I receive in my e-mail account. As far as security is concerned I just try to be secured by deleting different things every night before turning off my computer. First I delete browsing history of both Mozilla and Chrome, then delete temporary files, then I delete all cookies which are hidden, then finally I delete IE 7 browsing history. I think this is enough if still I feel unsecured then I will change my password in every two months and re-install my windows in every three months.

I had a problem regarding my official mailbox a few months ago. The data crashed and i lost a lot of important information because of that. Lesson learnt.After that all important information is backed up on my pen drive or on a cd depending on the size of it. Outlook does archiving of your mails, andyou could choose to do that for old mails on a different drive. But i'm sure there are other email back up software and i will share the link on that shortly. I guess i need to use it too.

I dont take backup but i think i should do from now :)

I do actually. I have an archives folder linked to a separate server and I take copies of all emails sent and received on a regular basis. You just never know when a system may crash and data ends up lost, so this is a positive thing to be doing. If I were to lose my work emails for example, I would lose years of relationship building data in parallel and that's irreplaceable.

Hey mimpi! I don't exactly understand? What do you mean she was hacked by a well wisher? I don't have a backup on my email, at least not that I know of. I have 2 email addys. But, I have certain things on this email addy and certain things on my other one. I have no idea what I would do if I was hacked! How does this crap happen? I try really hard to be careful, although I know this stuff happens! I don't really know what I would do!

I never back up my inbox. However if you want to back up all of your email messages you can use yahoo. It provides back up service

I receive emails using Outlook express, and I have all my email saved in my computer. So I don't need any backup of my email box, but I think most important I won't have any important bank info or personal data in any emails.

thank you,mimpi,i never think of such a terrible .maybe i should copy some important email.

Same thing happened to me. Last month, i was logged out of my yahoo because someone signed in. i cannot access my mail the entire day, i was only able to access it the next day. i thought nothing strange happened to my account but when i was opening my paypal account, it can no longer be accessed. apparently, the registration information from paypal in my email was gone and i wasn't able to notice it. i also need my email box to be backed-up but i don't know any.

Does this mean that we should download important attachments immediately and delete the mail? I am just unable to comprehend how this has happened.

I can understand head nor tail of this discussion topic mimpi.I never knew that things like this happen.However, regarding my details I keep them all written in a note book and except for other passwords that I use here on the net [not banking] I have written down all these. But I cannot at all understand how a mail can be hacked. Left a comment in your 'white lies' discussion.

Well till now i have never done it because i never thought of my account been hacked or something like that but after hearing your case i think i should start doing it right now because i do have few of my important notes in my mail box......

Ohhh so sorry to hear that! Never thought that gmail can be hacked. I was once told by a friend that gmail is the best mailing address account that i can use since its not hackable at all. So nothing really is safe in the internet so better back-up everything. Good luck! Happy mylotting!

From your friend's suffer,I must pay more attention to my eamil box! Actually i have back up many important messages in my computer.It will be very terrible that important messages lose .I know your friend forget her account and password,i advise you can back up all your's account and password in a secret place to avoid forgrtting.