Backup My Hotmail Locally?

I access hotmail from IE6 and am keen to keep a local store of one of
my hotmail folders. Would prefer not to copy and paste the body of each
email into Word, but I am unable to persuade hotmail to let me copy the
folder or its emails to my local drive. Does anyone know a way please?

belt&braces

Re: Backup My Hotmail Locally?

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> I access hotmail from IE6 and am keen to keep a local store of one of
> my hotmail folders. Would prefer not to copy and paste the body of
> each email into Word, but I am unable to persuade hotmail to let me
> copy the folder or its emails to my local drive. Does anyone know a
> way please?

Use wget http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
Since you seem totally dependent upon GUI, you might also wish to use a
frontend such as widGet
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=wge t

Re: Backup My Hotmail Locally?

We have some beta software that will do this - if you want to test it
contact me
at jmckay321@hotmail.com.

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> I access hotmail from IE6 and am keen to keep a local store of one of
> my hotmail folders. Would prefer not to copy and paste the body of each
> email into Word, but I am unable to persuade hotmail to let me copy the
> folder or its emails to my local drive. Does anyone know a way please?
>
> belt&braces
>

Re: Backup My Hotmail Locally?

googlenospam@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
> I access hotmail from IE6 and am keen to keep a local store of one of
> my hotmail folders. Would prefer not to copy and paste the body of each
> email into Word, but I am unable to persuade hotmail to let me copy the
> folder or its emails to my local drive. Does anyone know a way please?
>
> belt&braces

You can use FreePOPs [1]. FreePOPs is a small POP server which sits
between a webmail service/server, like Hotmail, and a normal 'mailer'
(MUA, Mail User Agent), like - considering your platform - for example
Outlook Express. I.e. with FreePOPs, you can use Hotmail as if it were a
normal POP server. As a normal POP-based mailer allows you to keep a
local store of your messages/folders, the mailer+FreePOPs combination
will do the same for Hotmail.

[1] . See the Modules at
, especially the hotmail.lua
and hotmailfixed.lua ones (I don't know what's the difference between
these two).

Re: Backup My Hotmail Locally?

Thanks everyone. Freepops did the trick fine, except it took me a while
to realise that I cannot send from the hotmail/localhost account. At
least everything is backed up now

belt & braces

Frank Slootweg wrote:
> googlenospam@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
> > I access hotmail from IE6 and am keen to keep a local store of one of
> > my hotmail folders. Would prefer not to copy and paste the body of each
> > email into Word, but I am unable to persuade hotmail to let me copy the
> > folder or its emails to my local drive. Does anyone know a way please?
> >
> > belt&braces
>
> You can use FreePOPs [1]. FreePOPs is a small POP server which sits
> between a webmail service/server, like Hotmail, and a normal 'mailer'
> (MUA, Mail User Agent), like - considering your platform - for example
> Outlook Express. I.e. with FreePOPs, you can use Hotmail as if it were a
> normal POP server. As a normal POP-based mailer allows you to keep a
> local store of your messages/folders, the mailer+FreePOPs combination
> will do the same for Hotmail.
>
> [1] . See the Modules at
> , especially the hotmail.lua
> and hotmailfixed.lua ones (I don't know what's the difference between
> these two).

Re: Backup My Hotmail Locally?

googlenospam@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
> Thanks everyone. Freepops did the trick fine,

Glad to hear.

> except it took me a while to realise that I cannot send from the
> hotmail/localhost account.

If your normal MSP (Mail Service Provider) allows it, you may be able
to use your Hotmail *e-mail address* (i.e. @hotmail.com) with your
MSP's outgoing *SMTP server* (i.e. something like
smtp..).

I use a similar setup for a Yahoo webmail account. In Outlook Express
I have an Account (Tools -> Accounts...) called "Yahoo ..." which on the
Servers tab has "Server Information" -> "Outgoing mail(SMTP)" set to
smtp.wanadoo.nl, which is the outgoing SMTP server of my MSP/ISP,
wanadoo.nl. So when *sending* mail, I use my MSP's outgoing SMTP server,
and when *receiving* mail, I use Yahoo's (i.e. like your Hotmail's)
webmail server (and FreePOPs [1]).

I hope this helps.

> At least everything is backed up now
>
> belt & braces

[1] Actually YPOPs!, but that's similar.

Re: Backup My Hotmail Locally?

Thanks Frank
Well I thought I tried that at some point with no success, now I had
another stab and I can send as well, makes things much simpler

belt & braces

Frank Slootweg wrote:
> googlenospam@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
> > Thanks everyone. Freepops did the trick fine,
>
> Glad to hear.
>
> > except it took me a while to realise that I cannot send from the
> > hotmail/localhost account.
>
> If your normal MSP (Mail Service Provider) allows it, you may be able
> to use your Hotmail *e-mail address* (i.e. @hotmail.com) with your
> MSP's outgoing *SMTP server* (i.e. something like
> smtp..).
>
> I use a similar setup for a Yahoo webmail account. In Outlook Express
> I have an Account (Tools -> Accounts...) called "Yahoo ..." which on the
> Servers tab has "Server Information" -> "Outgoing mail(SMTP)" set to
> smtp.wanadoo.nl, which is the outgoing SMTP server of my MSP/ISP,
> wanadoo.nl. So when *sending* mail, I use my MSP's outgoing SMTP server,
> and when *receiving* mail, I use Yahoo's (i.e. like your Hotmail's)
> webmail server (and FreePOPs [1]).
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> > At least everything is backed up now
> >
> > belt & braces
>
> [1] Actually YPOPs!, but that's similar.