Email Backup Pro for Mac2.8

From Squashedsoftware.com Announcement It is with great regret that I am shutting Squashed Software down. Due to my day job, and general lack of time to properly support Squashed Software as it deserves, Squashed Software is being closed indefinitely. In the coming days I will post free license keys for all of our software for anyone to use - but going forward support will be not available. I thank all of our customers over the last 5 and a bit years (as Squashed Software and even longer as Maza Digital) for their support and kind words. Hopefully at some point in the future Squashed Software might return... Cheers, Aaron Here are the free licenses... All licenses use the following registration information: Name: Free Email: RAID Monitor 3: 1982-CA99-3EC9-0F63-F663-A6AD Email Backup Pro 2: 2312-CB7A-DD62-6648-1BB6-334A iTunes Consolidator: 1005-1CDA-C0F1-8BBF-4897-11C5 EasyVPN: 1709-E3F0-AD1F-69D0-7BB5-8A27

Email Backup Pro is discontinued ! see : http://www.squashedsoftware.com But the developer posted free license keys on the same page

Just got an email from the developer for the 5 or so bugs I logged over the past 2 years on this product (and gotten no response from him on them). He's shutting down the company and will be releasing public keys to use this app for free. Based on the bugs, which I hope would be fixed, it's time for me to find a product that works and is supported. This guy took my money and did NOTHING to earn it. I'll remember him.

Emailed this developer twice about the same problem. Absolutely no response. DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE. No support.

I should have listened to the "poor customer service" comments on this page. How about "no customer service"? I've run this for 6 months or so. In both 10.6 and 10.8, EMP will sometimes randomly select a name from devices on my network and use that instead of 'hostid' for backup filenames. I've mailed the developer a couple times but been totally ignored. At this point, I think the backups are redundant with Time Machine anyway. I can open up mail, go back to a date in TM, and the emails sent and received that day are all there. I hope this developer has a day-job because this piece of junk wasn't worth the $10 I paid for it.

February 11, 2012 - 2.6.1 update released to fix apps ability to restart after a backup. Back to a 5 star app. This app also backs up your address book and backup / restoring Address Book is an added bonus.

Six months after Lion and it's still broken. Don't waste you time and $$ on this app - it does not work with Lion. Apple Mail locks up after this app is run and it's a pain to get Apple Mail back up and running. Anyone with suggestions for a good back up solution for Apple Mail?

Poor customer service from the developer. I first registered this product in August of 2007 and it has worked reliably until I upgraded my Macbook Pro to Lion. The issue I am now having is that the logins to my various mail servers (IMAP and SMTP) fail consistently after a backup has been run. Entering the passwords in the dialog boxes doesn't work. The only solution is a full system reboot, with the problem recurring at the next backup. A complete uninstall and reinstall has had no effect. A detailed help request with console dump was emailed to support on July 30th and remains unanswered. At this point, the application has been uninstalled and will remain so until the issue is resolved.

While it has been stated before that Time Machine also backs up Mail it is not totally intuitive on how to do it or more explicitly, how to retrieve mail once it's back up. Here's how: -Open Mail - Launch Time Machine - Either do a search using the search field or browse through the desired box till the message is found. - Choose the messages you wish to retrieve - Press restore the desired messages are retrieved into your current mailbox. So if you're using Time Machine and find a reliable as I do, you already own an excellent way of backing up and retreating old mail messages. So unless this program offers you a specific feature that you really want to spend $10 for, you may have something else more useful to spend your $10 on.

Error with "auto update" here to. Download works fine, then install it over the old one.

Tried to update to 2.5.3. Had an Update error! The Update is improperly signed.

It would be nice if the developer could explicitly state in this MacUpdate.com post which email clients it works with (aside from those cryptically mentioned in the What's New > Version 2.5.1 section). Naturally, I assume it works with Apple's Mail, but what about Entourage, Thunderbird or the newly released Outlook from Office 2011?

We have not had any contact from you since June last year. We were unaware that there was still a problem. Cheers, The Squashed Software Team

Tried everything including email exchange with the developer. Every single backup gives a dialogue showing that there were errors. Backups are Gigabits and the app won't backup to drop box. Every notification at the end of backup requires looking at the console to see the errors log. After corresponding with the developer and following the suggestions given, there has been no change. Even though I bought the Pro version, it has never worked for me, so I uninstalled it today (I had hoped to keep the email on all my computers up to date without starting each one to download mail.)

This is a really nice e-mail backup solution for Apple Mail. I put my backups into my DropBox Folder, and voila! Constant backup.

Great eMail & Address Book backup utility. Developer VERY RESPONSIVE to email requests, bugs, etc. I highly recommend this software to back up these 2 programs. Very worthy of 5 stars IMHO.

error backup because? 2010-01-12 02:02:24.540 Email Backup Pro[1380:207] Created Squashed Software folder in users Application Support directory. 2010-01-12 02:02:27.009 Email Backup Pro[1380:207] Trial Version in use. 2010-01-12 02:02:27.010 Email Backup Pro[1380:207] Created Email Backup Pro folder in users Squashed Software directory. 2010-01-12 02:02:27.010 Email Backup Pro[1380:207] Moving Backup Engine 2010-01-12 02:02:27.020 Email Backup Pro[1380:207] Preferences: Finished Loading 2010-01-12 02:02:27.056 Email Backup Pro[1380:207] Email Backup Pro was mis-configured. 2010-01-12 02:02:28.559 Email Backup Pro[1380:207] Email Backup Pro launched 2010-01-12 02:02:34.832 Email Backup Pro[1380:207] -[NSOpenPanel _setIncludeNewFolderButton:] is deprecated. Please stop calling it. 2010-01-12 02:02:41.866 Email Backup Pro[1380:207] Trial Mode: Schedule disabled. Run Now allowed. 2010-01-12 02:02:44.299 BackupEngine[1396:207] Trial Mode - Run Now 2010-01-12 02:02:44.684 BackupEngine[1396:207] Results of the Email Backup: Checking for destination... Quiting email application... 2010-01-12 02:02:44.692 BackupEngine[1396:207] Quiting Address Book application... 2010-01-12 02:02:44.694 BackupEngine[1396:207] Creating backup files 2010-01-12 02:02:44.701 BackupEngine[1396:207] Backing up Mail... 2010-01-12 02:02:46.728 BackupEngine[1396:207] Backing up Mail Attachments... 2010-01-12 02:02:46.731 BackupEngine[1396:207] ditto: no files for PKZip archive 2010-01-12 02:02:46.738 BackupEngine[1396:207] Tue Jan 12 02:02:46 CET 2010: Backup failed. Please see above error messages. 2010-01-12 02:02:46.869 BackupEngine[1396:207] Cleaning up after failed Backup thank bye

A mail backup program that doesn't allow browsing? Really? What good is it. Mail Steward is the standard here and although it costs more than Email Backup Pro the feature set far outshines the weak ones listed for this program.

This app just keeps getting better.

A fabulous little 'peace of-of-mind' app.

I was hoping this software would do two things: 1) Allow me to browse archived email 2) Function separately from the Mail client Sadly, neither is the case. This is an all or nothing "solution." Backup all your email to an archive with no viewability of its contents, and restore it all back to your client overwriting your current email in the process.

I bought this software based on my need for archiving my emails from Apple mail so that I could reduce the online size of my Apple mail. But after I paid for the license (very cheap) and set it up to use it, I found that the functionality I wanted was not there and the function that was there is already available in Time Machine (TM), hence I have no use for this software. What Email Backup (EB) does is provide a timed automatic backup of your entire email. In doing this it merely replicates the same functionality that TM already provides. Even worse, with TM, I can do selective restores whereas EB does not, it can only restore the entire email DB to the point of time when the backup was taken. So this precludes any ability to archive (and remove) emails because if I restore from the backup, any new emails would disappear. The developer explained that the purpose of EB was to provide a last resort backup. Well that is exactly what TM provides. Each backup file created is a full backup, no incremental or differential backup capability is provided. I tried in vain to think how I can use this for archiving purposes but any scheme I came up with wuld not work given the current functionality of EB. The developer did say that they are thinking about providing an explorer type function to view the contents of the backup file. That and the ability to restore selected emails from the explorer view would be a great addition in my view. But in the mean time, I will remove the software from my system and rely on TM for the same functionality. I rated the value as a 3 only because it was so cheap and got it at 40% off from Macupdate.

I've used this utility for over a year, beginning with version 1. Version 2 improves on version 1 in a number of useful ways, I was more than happy to pay the small upgrade fee. At first version 2 did not work correctly for me; the developer was responsive and tireless in his actions to resolve the issue. This is not the kind of attentive assistance you get with all software houses. Version 2 simplifies and automates E-Mail and Address Book backup, not just for Apple Mail but for a number of other popular E-Mail clients; it's a worthy and recommended tool!

After a problem on my MBP related to Run Now command, the author replied very quickly and released the current version 2.0.1 which works perfectly for me.

This app works very well. I have used it for sveral months now. I did never experience any problem for backing up. Since I did never need to restore, I cannot say how it would work in such a case, but this is meant as a last recourse for a possible emergency situation anyway, and the fact that the app is working well makes me confident that I wouldn't have any trouble.

This can be done by doing the following: **** From the Mail Help ***** To back up mailboxes and addresses, make copies of: The Mail folder, located in the Library folder of your home folder. The file com.apple.mail.plist, located in the Preferences folder of your Library folder. This file stores the preferences you set in Mail Preferences. The folder AddressBook, located in the Application Support folder of your Library folder. The folder AddressBook contains the information in your address book, which is used by both Address Book and Mail. Use Automator, archive the file, and you are done. You can use Automator to also restore.