Back up your email
Select File > Open & Export > Import/Export.
Select Export to a file, and then select Next.
Select Outlook Data File (.pst), and select Next.
Select the mail folder you want to back up and select Next.
Choose a location and name for your backup file, and then select Finish.
Ask HN: What do you use to backup email?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you use to backup email?
#12I self-host my mail, with OpenSMTPd and Dovecot delivering to / reading from my system user's Maildir (full documentation: https://mail.yellowapple.us). This means that backing up / restoring my emails is just a matter of backing up / restoring ~/Maildir (and I've indeed gone through that exercise before).
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to backup email?
#13I'm using getmail (https://pyropus.ca./software/getmail/) as a cronjob every night to download it all and then sync with an offsite backup
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to backup email?
#14Fastmail (with my own domain names) is my mail provider and Gmail is my mail client. Therefore my mail is in two locations.
Local backups do not concern me. I am more concerned with the risk of my domain names being tied to a free entity like Gmail.