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Horcrux Email Backup for Mac

Automatically backup your IMAP email.

$29.99
In English
Version 4.1.36
3.4
Based on 7 user rates

Horcrux Email Backup overview

Horcrux Email Backup lets you automatically backup your mails from any IMAP supported email accounts with great ease. The best part is, you have an option to restore the backup'ed emails to any other email account, retaining all your tags/folder hierarchy. Note: This is a background app, it resides on the Mac menu bar called "H". Click on that to get back to the preferences.

Features:
  • Tested with Gmail, Google Apps, iCloud, Microsoft Exchange. It should work on most email accounts.
  • Incremental backups.
  • Supports multiple email accounts
  • Add the accounts, set the backup frequency and it'll unobtrusively backup emails in the background
  • Native Email Browsing interface where you can undelete specific emails (in case of user error)
  • Independent IMAP Server to Server migration utility
  • Emails can be archived as a ZIP file making your data portable
  • Clever restore process that'll skip already existing emails
  • Stores emails in open format (.eml) which can be opened in clients like Apple Mail
  • Can export emails in open format as .mbox

What’s new in version 4.1.36

Note: The downloadable demo is version 4.1.36; the version available for purchase on the Mac App Store is version 4.1.37.

  • Native Support for M1
  • Support for new authentication method for Google.
  • Remove a bug where account list turns red
  • Minor bug fixes

Horcrux Email Backup for Mac

$29.99
In English
Version 4.1.36
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3.4

(5 Reviews of Horcrux Email Backup)

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  • User Ratings

Tomq
Tomq
Dec 11 2017
4.0.1
5.0
Dec 11 2017
5.0
Version: 4.0.1
Working well for me in the first 2 weeks of use. Needed to try a different program than MailSteward, which I have had too many problems with. Horcrux fixed their wrong date order problem with 4.0.6 almost instantaneously after notifying the developer. Pretty good!
Madison-mac
Madison-mac
Aug 3 2014
2.2
5.0
Aug 3 2014
5.0
Version: 2.2
Just purchased Horcrux and had a few questions. The developer was quick to respond and it Horcrux is running nicely.
njaeckel
njaeckel
May 28 2013
1.7
4.5
May 28 2013
4.5
Version: 1.7
Having read the previous reviews, it is obvious that the author is listening (e.g. there is now an alternative backup location field in the settings) and working hard to address any short term issues. I had a support request (while still in the trial period) and it was responded to, analysed and fixed within the day. It now serves my purposes perfectly which is backing up my Exchange MAPI account to an external drive on a timed basis in the background.
Steve-Klems
Steve-Klems
Jan 17 2013
1.3
4.0
Jan 17 2013
4.0
Version: 1.3
Initially, it didn't backup my account like Rickzeman mentioned. I sceptically contacted the developer. The developer provided fairly good support quickly. He created new version for me to test, after a going back and forth a couple of times he was able to fix the bug. It seems to do the job, for now. I wish it had an option where I can set the backup path so I can back it up on my external hard drive.
RickZeman
RickZeman
Oct 28 2012
1.1
0.5
Oct 28 2012
0.5
Version: 1.1
This product is useless. It has a last backup time, yet browse backups says there are no backups, nor is there any network activity to indicate a backup is ongoing. Congrats...thanks to Apple's removal of any semblance of a refund policy, the author just screwed me out of $6.99 with this totally useless POS.
Tomq
Tomq
Dec 11 2017
5.0
Dec 11 2017
5.0
Version: null
Jef4
Jef4
Nov 20 2014
4.0
Nov 20 2014
4.0
Version: null
Madison-mac
Madison-mac
Aug 3 2014
5.0
Aug 3 2014
5.0
Version: null
njaeckel
njaeckel
May 28 2013
4.5
May 28 2013
4.5
Version: null
ReCourses
ReCourses
Apr 27 2013
1.0
Apr 27 2013
1.0
Version: null
Steve-Klems
Steve-Klems
Jan 17 2013
4.0
Jan 17 2013
4.0
Version: null
RickZeman
RickZeman
Oct 28 2012
0.5
Oct 28 2012
0.5
Version: null