Hey Jean,
I don't think there is a way to transfer all your mail archive from web
mail, such as Hotmail, in one shot. You probably have to open each one
separately and then save it into a local folder on your computer. I've
not used Hotmail myself so I don't know how to save your mail locally
from that application. I used AOL web mail for a while and it had a web
button that allowed you to save the mail.
I've also used cut and paste to do the deed. For a while I was saving
whole the HTML web page and then using a UNIX shell script to extract
the message part from the HTML page. You might not want to go there if
you are a Windows user.
What I do now is access my AOL mail using Thunderbird. You may be able
to do the same with your Hotmail. I don't know if they offer a POP3 or
IMAC interface for their customers. Thunderbird allows you to save your
mail to local folders. You can also set up filters for junk mail and
spam.
Mark LaPierre


-- Thank's Mark i download Thunderbird and all my e-mails on hotmail are
transfering on Thunderbird but it will take a while over 6000
Now can i transfer all e-mails to La Cie recovery hard disk??


Jean Prudhomme



Hey Jean,

Select "Local Folders" from the left folder list.

From the menu at the top of the page select File/New/Folder.

The dialog box that pops up asks you to name the new folder.  It also
offers you a choice of which folder to use as the parent folder for your
new folder.  It should default to "Local Folders" because you selected
that when you started this effort.  If it doesn't select "Local Folders"
from the pull down.

After your mail files have downloaded from the mail server you can
select them all, CTRL A, then right click on the mail, should be all
highlighted now, and select Move To/Local Folders/<NAME OF FOLDER YOU
JUST CREATED.

With 6000 files you might have to select all and move several times to
get them all.  After that it's just a matter of creating a backup of the
local folder.

Is up to you to decide how to set up your backup drive.  You can use a
second internal hard drive, or a plug in USB or eSATA drive, or a
separate file server or network file system for a backup.

Don't just use another folder on the same hard drive.  If you get a
virus or a hard drive crash you can loose the whole drive which includes
both the original and the backup copies if you do that.

If you are using a UNIX based operating system it is trivial to install
a separate hard drive and mount the drive only while making your backup
and unmount the drive when you're done.  That way the data is protected
from system corruption except for when the drive is mounted and the
backup is active.

I have a cron job on my Linux box that makes my system backup every
night at 23:00 even if I'm not home.  If you are using Windows you are
on your own for making the backup.

Mark LaPierre