MTB - Mozilla Thunderbird Backup

If Mozilla Thunderbird is the email client of your choice, then an application such as MTB - Mozilla Thunderbird Backup is bound to serve you well. As its name implies, MTB can create safe copies of your email profiles, allowing you to restore them whenever needed.

The purpose of MTB - Mozilla Thunderbird Backup is to help you prevent unpleasant situations when important messages, passwords, notes, signatures, and user preferences are lost. Having a backup of your profile can come in handy if you want to migrate Thunderbird data to another computer.

Relying on a wizard-based interface, MTB - Mozilla Thunderbird Backup can automatically detect the presence of the Thunderbird email client on your computer and identify the available profiles.

It enables you to select the desired profiles and, further on, to choose the email folders you want to include in the backup. Not only that it can create copies of your mailbox, but it also allows you to save local mail folders, extensions, address books, user settings, and saved certificates, as well as other preferences, such as the site permissions, available plugins, and the browser history.

While its primary function is to save Thunderbird data, the application also allows you to save auxiliary files and documents, and browser data. You can create a backup group to include the content of specific folders in a backup file.

While you can go ahead and perform the backup with the default settings, you should know that MTB - Mozilla Thunderbird Backup offers you the possibility to customize its behavior.

To be more specific, you can decide how multi-part files are handled and protect the resulting backup file with a password. A name can be assigned to the backup job, and the application can be configured to shut down, restart, and hibernate the PC, or exit once its task is completed.

Thanks to the user-friendly interface and the step-by-step guidance to creating a backup, MTB - Mozilla Thunderbird Backup can be used by anyone, regardless of their computer experience. Its speed is reasonable and, despite of the name, its functionality is not limited to backing up Thunderbird data only.