DON’T LET OUTAGES RUIN YOUR DAY

The recent Microsoft outage took out a client’s email system, which meant I couldn’t do my job.

This week it’s Microsoft. Next week it’ll be Google, I’m sure. And if not next week, soon enough a cloud service you pay a monthly subscription to will go down and they’ll be nothing you can do but wait.

In the meantime – export your email today. Export your emails and save them locally (usually in the .pst or .mbox format). Back them up somewhere. Export details for Outlook, Google, Google Workspace.

Then, open it locally using something something like Thunderbird, or Apple Mail.

If you’re got valuable / sentimental information sitting in your online email account, it’s worth having a back up somewhere else.