How To Backup Your Email With MailStore Home If you're anything like me, you rely on email for more a good chunk, if not most, of your personal communication. Financial, business, and family correspondence all hangs around in your inbox or email folders, ready to be accessed at a moment's notice. But if your inbox gets corrupted, or your webmail account gets hacked into, or any number of worst-case scenarios arise, you could find that precious data gone forever. Unless you have the foresight to back it up.