I’ve always preferred to access email through my ISP’s webmail service, rather than through an email client like Outlook Express or Thunderbird. The main reason for this preference is convenience, in that I can access my email from any computer that has Internet access.
I also like to keep my messages organized, so over time I’ve created several webmail folders and distributed messages amongst them.
Now the time has come where I would like to backup my webmail to my local computer.
Although I trust that my email data is safer from hardware failure residing in my ISP’s data center, there’s always a chance that data corruption could occur or that my account could be accidentally deleted.
After some research, I discovered that there’s no easy solution to synchronizing webmail folders to your computer. The best solution I found is slightly tedious.
