Back up your email messages easily

The importance of making regular backups cannot be stressed highly enough. Unfortunately, many of us don’t realise just how important they are until it is too late.When it comes to making backups, personal documents, digital photos and music files usually take priority with email not getting a look in.The perception is that it’s a time-consuming and complicated process to carry out. But actually it can be straightforward.In this Workshop we will show you how to back up messages from popular email programs such as Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail.We will even show you how to make backups of messages stored in Gmail and Hotmail webmail accounts. Before starting, though, decide where you’re going to store your backups – on a USB memory key, perhaps, or burned to a recordable DVD.Baffled by jargon? See our free online jargon buster