Email Export Software – Handy Backup

Export email software is essential for both offline email processing, archiving, and seamless migration to a different server or mail client. It simplifies tasks like transferring emails from Thunderbird to Outlook, Gmail, or any other service, ensuring data integrity and accessibility. Handy Backup enables users to export emails from nearly any local or web-based mail service.

Ready to experience the power of an email exporter for seamless migration and backup? Download your free 30-day trial of Handy Backup today and discover how easy it is to manage and migrate your email data with our powerful and user-friendly email export tool.

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How to Export Email Messages with Handy Backup?

There are two approaches to accomplish this task. The first method involves exporting email data from a local client (such as exporting all emails from Outlook). The second method is to copy data from a web-based mail service (for example, when you wish to export Gmail emails).


Export Email: Basics

When exporting emails, you should first create an email backup, and then restore these emails to a different location (such as a local client directory or a web mail account via the IMAP protocol). These two tasks—backup and recovery—must be performed consecutively.

Note: You can export email messages to and from most local clients and web services with minimal configuration, provided these clients and services support the standard EML message format (which, for example, is used to export email data from Outlook).




Exporting Email via Web Mail Services

This process uses the dedicated Email plug-in and the standard IMAP protocol to connect to your mail service. Before using this method, you must log into your web email accounts and enable access for local email clients. This is crucial for connecting these services to Handy Backup!

  1. Create a backup task as described above. In Step 2, select the Email plug-in from the Email group.
Create a backup task to email export
  1. Create a connection for your first email account, then select the messages you want to export.
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  1. Continue creating the task as described above, through to the final step.
  2. Give your task a name and run it immediately. Next, we will restore the data to export the email. Please refer to the User Manual for details.

Recovering Exported Emails to Another Location

  1. Again, create a new restoration task and enable advanced mode.
  2. In Step 2, select the file backup.hbi from your backup storage folder.
  3. On the next step, click "Change location" and select a new server to export the email content to. You may need to create a connection with this new server, as described above.
  4. Continue through the task creation wizard. Name your task in the final step and run it.

That's it! The new pair of tasks will export email messages from one account on a web mail server to another location!

Note: To export Gmail emails, you can use the dedicated, easy-to-use Gmail plug-in, which utilizes the same IMAP protocol as the generic Email plug-in. Always select the "Copy access rights" option when you export emails from Gmail to another service to avoid data loss due to varying encryption formats!

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