@zebNet:

When I chose a different drive than the default that set up on my C: drive, I received a message twice but with different starting numbers (I've replaced my user name with in the example messages below):

2383: (2) The system cannot find the file specified: [\\?\C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\zebnet\MailShelf Basic\Data\GeoDatabase.zndb]

55B0: (2) The system cannot find the file specified: [\\?\C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\zebnet\MailShelf Basic\Data\GeoDatabase.zndb]

After a while the program exited, then restarted, and it appeared that the new location was accepted. Still, if there is a browse function to a different location, there should not be any errors popping up; it should simply work.

There is not guide to help users get started, but some things seemed intuitive enough to try.
I started to set up a profile to archive Yahoo mail, but not knowing the server value and port numbers off the top of my head, I had to go look for that data. When I returned, I found that the MailShelf Basic program had already filled in the rest because it knew based on teh e-mail address I had entered. The test feature ensured me that the settings wre correct and working.

Next, I started the Archive manually.

The program seemed to progress at a very slow rate, with an estimate of archiving 10 messages per minute.

After approximately 20 minutes, the progress bar had advanced to around 5% complete when the following error was displayed:
1D97: The server has responded with negative reply. The server responded: MBN00002358 NO [LIMIT] FETCH Rate limit hit.
Abort Retry Ignore

Since the message comes from Yahoo, a common mail service, I am sure that zebNet knows what the message means, but the user most likely will not know exactly what it means.

MailShelf basic does not provide any help to the user as to what this entails, why, or how to resolve the error. The options of Abort, Retry, Ignore, imply that the user may be able to get past this error.

A Retry caused this message:
1D97: Socket connection has timed out. InnerException message follows: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
Abort Retry Ignore

I suspect that e-mail services such as Yahoo have a limited amount of bandwidth they are going to allow for these types of activities (backup programs that access the server over and over). It seems nearly impossible that this program can ever get to totally archiving all the e-mail on the server.

Therefore, what is the solution?

after two hours no email wit S/N on two different computers received...

Doesn't work with MS Outlook.

Can Juno email be linked to this program?

Don't forget to register your product key with your account, so you can manage your activations in case you can't access the PC anymore for whatever reason or you forgot to manually deactivate, you can activate the key only twice before it gets blocked for more activations. Then you only need access to this account and can remove older activations and unblock the key again at any time, even if you can't access the PC or software anymore. That isn't mentioned in the readme, so here is a step by step on how to do this:

Product Registration
1. Create an account here https://account.zebnet.co.uk
2. Open MailShelf and activate the program using your product key online
3. In the top right corner there is a dropdown menu, besides the question mark icon, click on it and select the first item Product Registration
3. In the newly opened webpage, fill in the remaining information and send back the form, that will register the software and key in your account
4. You can manage your registered program and key under My Products | My Activations

As others pointed out earlier, MailStore has a free Home edition that is a potent contender to todays offer.

What this program does is combine and archive all of your email from different sources.
The problem with it, is that you can view a small portion of each email in the view panel at the bottom, but it cannot open the individual email for viewing the entire thing all at once.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

And furthermore:
5. Like Marek, MailShelf does not recognize the Windows 10 Mail account as being installed.
6. How does MailShelf treat deletions in the Windows Live Mail (and I assume other accounts). Periodically I delete emails that have outlived their usefulness. On the one hand a synchronization of the original and archive would be a useful feature. On the other hand being able to recover a deleted email would also be useful. The way to achieve that would be having a view of the archive that reflects the current content of the original with the option to call up deleted emails with the option of recovering them. Sort of a Recycle bin for the archives. Mothman would probably say, what's with the paranoia over a couple of lost email message? And he may be right.

Install and activation easy and successful. Interface and flexibility of program good. I have primarily used Windows Live Mail for many years and will probably switch to Windows 10 Mail when Microsoft deep sixes the former. I have a long history of email imported into Windows Live Mail from as far back as Outlook express. I organize emails in my primary Inbox by creating meaningful meaningfull folders in the "Storage Folders : Local Folders" folder and moving to the appropriate folder. Considering upgrade but have some questions:
1. Doing my first backup with the default settings, only my Windows Live Mail primary Inbox folder (plus Deleted, Drafts, Sent, Junk) was archived. None of the "Storage Folders : Local Folders" were archived. Is there a way to include the latter in the archive. This is an important required for me.
2. After a complete loss of the Windows Live Mail data (e.g. reinstall of Windows 10), can the content be recovered by importing the archive. (And this would have to include the "Storage Folders" to be useful for me.)
3. About 90% completion of archive process, there was an "AA65: out of memory" error. After clicking the error message, MailShelf continued to process, a total of 1303 emails. There was no indication if any of the emails were not processed or corrupted as a result of the error. I compared the archive processing log and matched it up with the number of emails in my account and the count matched. So what's the cause and effect of the AA65 error.
4. My home computer has three login accounts setup, one for myself, my wife and my son. It appears that MailShelf by default archives only the mail account of the profile that the program is running in. Due to the flakiness of Windows 10 I perform frequent backups and it would be useful if I could backup all three of the Windows Live Mail accounts at the same time. The only other option I can think of is setting up automated backups that take place each time the account is logged into.

Would like to save my Yahoo mail to an external hard drive. I have approximately a 1,000 old business files which are inactive but would like to keep. Can I do this?
Thanks

The company seems interesting. I had never heard of it. It's British.

I am wondering if the GOTD license is good for a year or good until it is lost. would also like to know how long a purchased license is good for. And does the $19.99 purchase price buy a per user license or a per computer license. Anyone know?

Registration mail arrived within an instant. Software installation on Win 10 latest non-insider build as sweet as can be.
Main IMAP account setup as easy as can be. Mail address entered and apart from having to type in access key all other input was added by the software (European based software!)
Determining storage folder on a drive of my choice was the next task before zebNet Mail was able to kick off archiving, starting with incoming mail and carrying with all IMAP folders.

Right now I am more than pleased and will report back should recovery fail.

Anyway, to me it looks like a real smashing offer. Thank you GOTD and zebNet :-)

I'm trying to archive e-mails from Windows Mail, but when I try to add profile for it, it say "Windows Mail could not be found on your computer. Please install Windows Mail and try again." What's up? My system is Windows 10 Pro with latest updates.

I would like to archive my yahoo email accounts on an external hard drive. I have 1,000 or so business files which I need to keep but do not need active. Can this program do this. I noticed one comment that only a defined number could be downloaded. Thank you in advance for any comments.

GOTD manager some developer at the end of the review of software says
Use Idea Informer widget to win the number of full license for the best suggestion
but the user of the site Never see Which user win this type of license for Which suggestion
I ask you to arrange for this to be clarified thanks

Downloaded and installed on Win10 64, works as expected, I have backed up my outlook accounts and also my imap accounts without problems.

Must be missing something....why would anyone want to save hundreds of emails...let alone retrieve them??

Well, this was a letdown. I expected I could archive all my Gmail then remove many to free space in my account but this only was able to pull down around 500 emails of the thousands I have. Of these 500 or so none were newer than 4 years old. This is not at all what I expected from a "professional email archiving solution". I appreciate this site and the free offers but this one just seems to work partially so it'll get a pass.

hello, activation limit exceeded

There has to be another incentive for the companies and personal e-mail when archiving with mailshelf.
We have put every received, sent, replied and comments to all e-mails in a Yahoo archives online with just a click.
Furthermore, we have sent the whole archived e-mails from Yahoo to Gmail as secondary storage and also to our local server and we have a PDF printout in a storage vault locally, classified by importance and in a d-base for easy search.
I do not see how mailshelf can help us, it is another archiving software.

I was hoping for an email send/receive program. This apparently is not that.

I've downloaded the software and it's now asking me for a product key. What do I do next, please?

MailShelf Basic is a nice piece of software if your in need one for your email. Yahoo, Gmail and all the others need to be set up as POP3. I use Opera 12.18 and it's email client. IMO it's one of the best all around. My Yahoo and Gmail accounts come right to my browser. It to needs to be setup as POP3. Just wish Opera hadn't gone and gotten all stupid, deciding to be Chrome's little brother. Anyway, if your in need of a email software program MailShelf will do the trick for you. Thanks to GOTD and zebNet Ltd for MailShelf Basic

I would like to archive my Gmail Email account. Would this app help?

which mail clients are supported?

I would like to archive my Godaddy Email account. Would this app help?