Folks at Zoho has posted an instruction how to backup Gmail on Zoho Mail. The concept is similar to the client based applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Windows Live Mail, where the email downloaded into that particular email client.

In case this is the first time you heard of Zoho, it is an web office suite and collaboration tool, which among other contain Zoho Mail. It is email client that ‘live’ on the cloud. That means the backup emails are kept on the cloud, which theoretically safer rather than keeping it on the local drive.

Although the post specifically mention Gmail, it is actually works for any other email that support POP3, including Hotmail, that has just got their POP3 support recently.

To get started, head to your Zoho Mail and follow this - Setting - Mail Setting - Mail Accounts.

On my testing below, I used back the Hotmail’s POP3 setup.

There you go my Hotmail in Zoho Mail.