The Bottom Line
Unfortunately, SafeMail is no longer available.
Pros
- SafeMail is a comprehensive backup solution for Outlook Express
- You can run SafeMail backups automatically using any task scheduler
- SafeMail can create executable backups that restore themselves
Cons
- SafeMail offers no alternative to its wizard mode
- You cannot create incremental backups with SafeMail
Description
- SafeMail backs up your Outlook Express data.
- Backups can include messages, address books, rules, blocked senders, identities and settings.
- SafeMail can also include your stationery and Internet Explorer favorites in backups.
- It's easy to recover (select) data from a SafeMail backup.
- Optionally, SafeMail creates self-extracting and self-restoring backups.
- Backup settings can be saved to "Profiles" in SafeMail for easy access.
- Using a number of command line switches, SafeMail can be run automatically via a task scheduler.
- SafeMail supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/3/XP and Outlook Express 5/6.
Guide Review - SafeMail 1.05 - Outlook Express Backup Tool
With SafeMail, it's both easy to create the occasional backup using its swift wizard mode and just as easy to make scheduled backups using SafeMail's command line arguments and a task scheduler (the one built into Windows will do fine). SafeMail creates a zipped backup copy of all your emails in Outlook Express, your address book, message rules and blocked senders and includes your stationery and favorites folders as well.
Backing up just a subset of any of these is possible as well. Since SafeMail does not use a proprietary file format to keep the copied data, you can always extract it "by hand" for recovery.
Of course, SafeMail itself also includes a swift restore command. And you can even make SafeMail create a standalone backup that lets you recover without a dedicated SafeMail installation (on another computer, for example).
