Do you create backups of your email accounts? A popular solution for that is MailStore Home, which is free and cross-platform. The original founder of MailStore Home has created Vanderplanki, which serves the same purpose.
Vanderplanki can backup email accounts so that you may read messages offline, search across accounts, and more. It lacked some of the advanced features of MailStore Home up until now, namely support for Microsoft email accounts, such as Outlook or Microsoft 365.
The new release, Vanderplanki 3, adds the support. The release notes confirm the addition of support for Outlook.com mailboxes, including Hotmail, Live, and MSN, and support for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Exchange Online accounts.
The feature removes one of the main shortcomings of the email backup solution. Now, with Microsoft email support, it is capable of backing up emails from all major providers.
The new release adds another useful feature. The app fills out configurations for most major IMAP email providers automatically. This improves the process further.
There is still one downside to Vanderplanki at the time of writing. The software is only available in German. In fact, you may be blocked from downloading it, if you do not come from a German-speaking region. It is probably only a matter of time before other interface languages will be supported.
Now You: Do you back up your email accounts regularly? If so, how do you do it? Feel free to leave a comment down below.
I just tried MailStore Home. Regrettably, it does not support Yahoo email backup.
@boris–You sure? Old article/tutorial: https://www.intowindows.com/how-to-backup-yahoo-mail-to-your-pc-using-mailstore/
I figured out it has something to do with my blocking all Microsoft Internet connections. I blocked so many of them with quite a few privacy apps that I can not unblock them. Regrettably, “MailStore Home” does not use its own connections. SimpleWall does not detect MailStore Home establishing dedicated Internet connection. So my conclusion, it is using some Microsoft services and most of these are either blocked or uninstalled on my computer.
I make a backup; here’s an interesting question a Gmail user had: “I had written to this help group back in May because ALL of my emails have disappeared: inbox, deleted, primary, social….etc. ALL. I was told to take certain steps which I did but with no success.”
https://support.google.com/mail/thread/280224413/all-my-emails-disappeared?hl=en
Missing emails, vaporized, gone . . . for no apparent reason. Not much different than the Reddit user mentioned in the gHacks article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/06/17/story-of-microsoft-locking-a-user-account-gives-a-prime-example-of-what-you-should-never-do/
Glad to hear Outlook is added to Vanderplanki.