Back Up Your Email Box Before It is Too Late

When so many of us rely so much on our email toFolder has not
operate ourbeen deleted from the origination folder. In fact, the
businesses or our personal lives, it is important to takemessage
is just where it originated until you do the command
preventative measures to avoid the ultimate disasterCompress
ofFolders or Empty Trash Folder.The Empty Trash
unrecoverable email.I come to this subject as a matterFolder command will only compress the messages
of multiple events on myfor the item that is in the Trash Folder. In order to do
machine where one day I would open my mail tothe
discover thatsame for your entire email system, you must use the
all has been lost. The pit that wells in your stomachcommand
uponCompress Folders.The simple action of sending email
realization of this occurrence can be overwhelming.to the trash without
To recovercompressing the folders or simply emptying the trash
in the event of future losses, each of us should learncan also
thelead to great destabilization of your email client. So
basics of maintaining and backing up our email.One ofplease
the important things to do in preventative maintenance,take great care to maintain your email client software
as it
is to clean your folders and to empty your trash. Mostshould be.If there is one thing that I have learned with
peoplecomputers, one
do not realize that when the number of messages inshould always prepare for the worst case scenario.
a specificAlways! In
folder exceeds a certain threshold that they beginorder to be fully prepared for the worst case
running onscenario with
borrowed time.Exactly where that threshold is variesyour email, you should do regular backups of your mail
from email client tofolders.Here I will explain how to do that outside of the
email client, so what may be true for mine may beemail
differentclient's process for this purpose. I am also explaining
for yours. When this article was originally written, Ihow
was usingto do so only for Outlook Express and Netscape Mail.
the Netscape 4.x Email Client for security reasonsI have
more thannever ran an Eudora client at the times I was
anything. The Netscape Email Client is less susceptibleexploring this
toscenario.FOR OUTLOOK EXPRESS USERS:In your
JavaScript attacks than any other email client I havewindows Explorer, you will find a folder, most likely
used.with this precise name. The only difference you might
These days, I have grown with Netscape to thesee is
Netscape 7.xin the Application Key as noted between the
platform. This is important to note as Netscape 8.x{}.C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\
does not
offer email anymore.What I do know is that I haveft\Outlook ExpressWhen you navigate to this folder,
repeatedly pushed my client tothis is the default location
its limits to see where the threshold might be. Thewhere your Outlook Express Email is stored. Simply
Netscapehighlight
4.x Email Client will generally break at around 4,500the last folder, "Outlook Express" and copy it to
emailanother
messages in one folder, though it will become shakylocation. In most cases, this folder will be way too
at aroundlarge
2,000 messages. I have yet to determine the upperto copy to a Floppy Drive. Most likely, you will need to
thresholdcopy it to a Zip drive or another location on your hard
on Netscape 7.x, and I have had folders with moredrive.You can also save the individual *.dbx files, which
than 20,000outline
messages in them.These upper ends will also dependthe contents of each of your mail boxes, the Inbox,
on your computer hardware.the
If you have a 200mhz machine with only 56kb RamOutbox, etc.If you are really bored, you can send the
memory,*.dbx file to Wordpad
you should expect a shake-out sooner than ato view the actual format of a mailbox from a text
machine that hasstandpoint.
a bigger processor with more memory.For users ofYou can use this only in a worst case scenario to
other clients such as Outlook Express, Eudora andattempt to
others, I cannot tell you the top end of how well therebuild a broken mail box. Always make backups of
softwarethe file
will perform.If there are more than 2,000 messagesbefore trying to repair it by hand --- Always!!!FOR
you wish to hang on to,NETSCAPE MAIL USERS:The location of the mail
you should begin filing your messages in separatestorage is: C:\Program
foldersFiles\Netscape\Users\username\MailOf course,
below the Inbox. This will help you to find yourreplace "username" with your username.Within the
messagesNetscape Mail system, you will discover three file
quicker and it will provide more stability to your emailtypes: *.sbd, *.snm, and (blank).The *.sbd is a folder
client.There are three folders that you must paythat contains all of your sub-folders.
regular attentionThe *.snm is the indexing file of your email. The (blank),
to. They are the Inbox, Sent Mail Folder and Trashie.
Folder.Most people fail to remember that their client is"Inbox" without an extension, is your actual mail
pre-configuredmessages
to save a copy of all outgoing email. As a result, thisrecorded in plain text. You can also send these files to
folderyour
can grow to unbelievable sizes before anyone thinksWordpad application to view the contents. Do not
to clean itsave this
out.It is important to mention the Trash Folder in morefile when you close it unless you are trying to rebuild
detailyour
since most people do not realize how it works.Mostbox, and if so, always make sure you have a backup
email clients follow a general principle in theirbefore
operation. Each email box is generally represented bydoing so.If you delete the *.snm, the *.snm file will
tworebuild itself
files. The first is a text rendering of all messages inthe next time you open your Netscape Mail
theapplication.Taking these precautions and knowing this
box. The second is an indexing file that lists the title ofinformation, you will
the email and other identifying characteristics relativenever have to chance losing all of your important
toemails again.
each individual message.When you look at theThe time you take today to backup your email box
contents of your email box, you arecan save you
actually seeing the contents of the indexing file. Whenthe worst nightmare ever. Trust me, I have been
youthere.Copyright Bill Platt - All Rights ReservedBill Platt is
pull up the text of an actual message, the software isthe owner of you are tired of the struggle of the link
findingbuilding process,
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softwareservices.When you are ready to employ more Natural
assigned Email ID as listed in the indexing file.Now,Linking Strategies in
when you move a message from one folder toincreasing your link popularity, "Links And Traffic" can
another,help.When you are ready for your links to actually
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to understand. A message moved to the Trash