Thunderbird is a free and open-source mail applications that's easy to set up and loaded with great features. One of those features is the ability to quickly and easily save an email, or multiple emails to your computer.
Creating backups of your important data is crucial. Technology can be unpredictable and failures cannot always be predicted or prevented. If emails are critical to your business operations, it's a good idea to maintain regular backups of them.
Here we cover the steps to export a copy of your emails using the Thunderbird mail client.
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Save Emails
- Launch Thunderbird
- Navigate to the emails you wish to save
- Select the specific email(s) to export
TIP: Hold down the CTRL key to select multiple emails, or SHIFT to select a range of emails. Pressing CTRL+A will select all emails. - Click the hamburger menu button then click Save As
- Click File...
TIP: You can instead use the CTRL+S keyboard shortcut to access the save dialog. - Navigate to the folder where you would like to store the emails and click the Select Folder button
NOTE: If saving multiple emails, creating a new folder to save them to is recommended, as each email will be saved as a separate EML file.