[AccessD] Survey - Preferred Email and NewsGroups client

Gustav,

    Thanks for providing these valuable tips. So nice of you. It  opens up many possibilities.

Best wishes,
A.D. Tejpal
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gustav Brock 
  To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com 
  Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 20:20
  Subject: Re: [AccessD] Survey - Preferred Email and NewsGroups client


  Hi A.D.

  Yes. Two or more remote storages aren't of much use if your line is down. If that situation is unacceptable, on-site storage must be established.
  You can either run your own mail server - it's not that difficult and several free options are offered:

   - hMailServer: http://www.hmailserver.com
   - SmarterMail: http://www.smartertools.com/SmarterMail 
   - Mercury: http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercury.htm 

  all of which can by themselves pull mail via POP and/or IMAP from a remote server - or you could use a tool like ImapSize to pull all e-mails via IMAP to a local directory/file structure:

    http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/index.php 

  Further, clients exist that have features for this purpose, some at a (fair) cost like The Bat:

    http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/index.php 

  /gustav


  >>> adtp at airtelmail.in 05-02-2010 13:55 >>>
  Gustav,

      Would it meet the requirement that all back up is physically stored on my hard disk, retrievable as needed, even if Google were to shut down all their servers ? 

      Underlying objective:
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      Archived messages should be in my absolute physical possession. For accessing these, there must be no scope for being held hostage to any third party's resources / performance / status / fate. (Confining our dependence in this respect to one entity i.e. Microsoft)

  Best wishes,
  A.D. Tejpal
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