Export email (Outlook, Gmail etc.) to another service or mail client is necessary for both offline processing and migrating to another server or client (such as Thunderbird export email to Outlook or to some Web service). Handy Backup allows export emails from almost any local or Web mail existing.
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These are two approaches to this task. The first allows export email data from a local client (such as export all emails from Outlook). The second approach is to copy data from a Web mail service (for example, when you wish to export Gmail emails).
When you want to export emails, you must firstly make email backup, and then restore these emails to another place (a local client directory or a Web mail account via the IMAP protocol). These two tasks, backup and recovery, must run consecutively in advance.
Note: You can export email messages to and from most local clients and Web services freely with only few settings, if these clients and services support the standard EML message format (which you utilize, for example, to export email Outlook data).
Note: To export emails from Outlook client, you may utilize the dedicated, easy-to-use Outlook plug-in, which search and select Outlook data automatically.
Note: Be sure that you turn an advanced mode on. You can change restore location on Step 3 only in advanced task wizard mode.
That is all! By using this method, you can allow such clients as Thunderbird export emails to another place.
This action uses the dedicated E-mail plug-in and the standard IMAP protocol to connect to mail service. Before using this method, you must enter into your Web email accounts and allow working with local email clients. This is important to connect these services to Handy Backup!
That is all! The new pair of tasks will export email messages from one account on some Web mail server to another place!
Note: To export Gmail emails, you can utilize the dedicated, easy-to-use Gmail plug-in based on the same IMAP protocol as the generic "E-mail" plug-in. Always use the "Copy access rights" option to export emails from Gmail to another service, to avoid data loss caused by different encryption formats!
Theoretically, you can freely export email data based on the common EML format from a local client to an IMAP-based service, or vice versa (e.g., export all emails from Outlook to Gmail, or export Gmail to Thunderbird, and so on).
Note: However, that you may lose some tag info from exported emails, due to slight differences between interpretations of header data in different email clients and services.
The standard protocols and formats of data allow Handy Backup organizing export email between many (in practice, almost any) existing local and Web services. It works equally for Windows and Linux local clients, and allows tuning for any Web server due to extended setup possibilities of the "E-mail" plug-in.
Handy Backup uses all standard protection tools for data transfer, such as protected IMAP. It can also encrypt temporary data during export email, and provides a bunch of protected storage including secured SFTP/FTPS servers, commercial clouds (Amazon S3, Dropbox etc.) and private clouds/NAS.
In addition to automating exporting email data itself, Handy Backup allows many auto actions, such as removing transitional content from a temporary vault after exporting email by auto-running a batch file after a restore task. It also can send detailed task reports and logs to a user via the provided email.
Please learn how to export email content from web mail services on this video example. Here, we will export email messages from Yahoo!Mail and then import these emails to an Outlook.com account. It is a simple, fast and convenient operation, completely automated after initial setup.