Mozilla Thunderbird: archiving emails with an email client
Thunderbird is a free, open source email client from Mozilla that exports individual emails in EML or email archives in MBOX.
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Retrieving webmail
- Open Mozilla Thunderbird.
- Thunderbird zoekt je e-mailservers voor inkomende en uitgaande e-mail. Duid ‘IMAP’ aan en klik op ‘Gereed’.
- Thunderbird asks for permission to access your emails and then retrieves all messages.
- Thunderbird zal nu starten met het ophalen van alle e-mails
Exporting emails to the folder structure
- Open the message that you want to export;
- In the window, click 'File' and then 'Save as'. Select to save the message as a file.
- Put the email in the correct folder and click 'Save';
- The email is saved as an EML file.
- De e-mail werd als een EML-bestand opgeslagen.
E-mails in bulk exporteren met ImportExportTools NG
You can install the ImportExportTools NG add-on in Thunderbird, which makes it possible to export multiple emails from your mailbox in EML format.
ImportExportTools NG installeren
- Ga naar 'Instellingen'
- Klik onderaan op 'Add-ons en thema's'
- Zoek naar importexport
- Wanneer je de add-on gevonden hebt, kies je voor 'Toevoegen aan Thunderbird'.
- Je krijgt een medlding met de vraag of je de add-on echt wil toevoegen. Wanneer je dit bevestigd, is ImportExportTools geïnstalleerd.
- Right-click on the folder you want to export;
- Select 'Import/Export in mbox/eml format - Export all messages in the folder - EML format'.
- Select the folder you want to save the emails to and click 'Select folder'.
- All emails are saved. A file called 'index.html' is also saved, which is an HTML file with a table of all the emails you have exported.
Saving an email archive in MBOX
- Right-click on the email address you want to archive;
- Select 'Import/export in mbox/eml format' and then 'Export all folders (with structure)'.
- Click 'OK'.
- Select the folder you want to save the email archive to and click 'Select folder';
- Mozilla Thunderbird exports the entire email archive in MBOX. An MBOX file is created for each folder in the mailbox.
