Carleton has no affiliation with the MailStore company or product. We do, however, consider it a possible option for archiving your Carleton email account when you leave campus. We have provided documentation here simply as a reference and these instructions are specific to your Carleton account.
Download and Install
Before Archiving
Before you begin the process of archiving your account:
- Ensure that you have a good internet connection: stable and fast are better
- Ensure that you can leave your computer on and running for several hours
Configuring MailStore
The following instructions will guide you through configuring MailStore Home for use in archiving your Carleton College email account.
- Open the MailStore Home application
- Click on the Archive E-mail link under the Quick Access menu
- Enter your Carleton email address under E-mail Account heading
- Click on the Advanced dropdown menu and select Gmail
- When prompted, enter your Carleton email address then click Authorize
- A new browser window or tab will open prompting you to allow Mailstore to access your Gmail account
Note: If you are logged in to both your Carleton and personal Gmail accounts, you will need to select your Carleton account before seeing this page.
- Click on the Allow button to grant access
- Switch back to the MailStore Home application, where there should now be a message that says Application is authorized
- Click on the Test button to ensure that Mailstore can access your account. If all is well, you should receive the message Connection successfully established
- You will now have the option to specify a date range – if you want to archive your entire account, don't make any changes
- You will now get a message confirming that a new profile has been created with your Carleton account name
You have now configured MailStore to access and archive your Carleton account, but it has not yet begun archiving.
Begin Archiving
- Open the MailStore Home application
- Click Archive E-mail on the left hand side
- Double-click your Carleton account profile name
The archiving process will now begin.