Features and Benefits of Beyond Inbox

What does Beyond Inbox do?

Use Beyond Inbox to Backup, Restore, Transfer, Archive and Organize your email. Beyond Inbox works with any IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) enabled email clients, like Gmail and Thunderbird.

Backup email for Disaster Recovery
Restore email from backup
Archive email for Record Retention
Transfer email to another account
Organize Inbox

Beyond Inbox comes with built-in feature to backup, copy, move and restore the email.This out of the box functionality makes Beyond Inbox extremely flexible, powerful, and easy to use tool.

The main features of Beyond Inbox are -

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Backup Email

Backup feature enables you to take the backup of email from the “IMAP Account” at the desired path at local.
Backup’s are categorized in two ways:

Backup selected email of an IMAP account.
Backup email of selected folder(s) from an IMAP account.

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Backup Plan

This feature allows you to plan your backup. Using this feature, you can configure, in advance, what you want to backup and then save the configuration. You can run saved configuration whenever you desire and the backup will be started for all the selected folders at the path which you have chosen while saving configuration.

Incremental Backup

Once you have configured your backup plan then you can use it to take incremental backup of your email. Incremental backup will backup those email which are not downloaded before or will backup newly arrived email in your account which were not downloaded in previous backup.

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Restore Email

Restore feature enables you to restore the backed up email which are stored at local file system in selected folder of IMAP account.

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Copy Email

Copy email feature allows copying email from one IMAP account to another IMAP account and in their different folders too. On completion of copy operation, copied email will reside in both IMAP accounts. You can copy directly a folder without exploring its email to another IMAP account.

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Move Email

This feature facilitates moving of email from one IMAP account to another IMAP account as well as in different folders of same IMAP account. Moved email is deleted from the source account and permanently moved in the specified folder of destination account. No need to explore a folder, you can move directly a folder from an IMAP account to another.

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Beyond Inbox Commander

Beyond Inbox Commander is a command line tool to schedule the backup of all folders’ email present in an IMAP account. Commander can be scheduled and automated. Automation means that the scheduled operations will be carried automatically as per configuration set in scheduler. It also provides a feature to send the report of backup to the specified mail account for which you have configured in SMTP Server Profile tag of BeyondInbox.xml file.

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Commander Separate Licensing

Beyond Inbox is providing separate license for running Beyond Inbox GUI and Beyond Inbox Commander. If you want to use features provided in Beyond Inbox GUI, then you can use license provided for Beyond Inbox or if you want to run Beyond Inbox Commander, then you can use license provided for Beyond Inbox Commander.

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Beyond Inbox Error Handling

Beyond Inbox provides the user, an ability to handle different errors while performing any operation. If any error from the server is encountered, then Beyond Inbox provides a way to ignore such errors or retry the process after some specified time interval. So, you can easily handle such errors.

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Restore using Drag and Drop

Beyond Inbox allows you to restore your downloaded email from native file system to IMAP account using drag and drop feature. On completion of operation, all selected email will be restored in selected IMAP folder.

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Configure Data path

Beyond Inbox allows you to set data path at startup where your downloaded email will be saved and default path is user home. You can also configure this path from Preferences -> General tab.

Report for Failed Messages

Now Beyond Inbox has option to view the failed messages to perform the operation. When you perform any operation, if any message gets failed to backup, copy, move or restore, then you will find the information for the failed messages with information of the sender email, Subject, Send/Received Date.

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