I know it's been mentioned before, but if you use IMAP and store your messages and folders on the server, you can log in with any mail client from any system anywhere and all your mail is there magically. I will give you such an account on my mail server for free if you want. Cheers, Michael On Sep 17, 2004, at 2:19 AM, tom wrote: > I want to learn to back up the mail system.