Mr. Miller, Business Analyst at the well-reputed organization, searched and shared a way of Horde Webmail export emails process.
Having bulk of emails on Webmail also needs the proper management of data. As by creating a backup of data helps to avoid any worst situation.
I made a mistake of not managing the data properly. I was having my two Webmail accounts. Due to some disastrous situation, I lost all my emails from one of my Webmail mailboxes. I was not having any option to retrieve my lost data. I gave my best to get it back but nothing worked. Then, I decided to backup all my Horde emails to avoid any mishappening in future with this Webmail.
Today, having the backup of every data is important to avoid to get in any trouble as I faced by losing all my crucial data.
It is a fact that one action teaches you a lot especially in the case of data. I started exploring for the solution to backup my Horde emails.
While searching, I found that there are various methodologies available in the online world. It is up to us how accurately you get a solution to export your Horde emails in a way to create a proper backup of data.
While searching I found a manual way also to download Horde emails directly from Horde Webmail.
Let us first check out the steps to manually backup Horde emails.
Note: It can be executed by logging in to Webmail with email address or by going via a cPanel account, which owns an email address.
Open via cPanel
Open via Webmail
Once the login process is completed, whether via anyway – cPanel or direct login, a page for webmail selection will come up.
Note: You can select any folder you want or desired email as well.
To open and view MBOX files, one need MBOX Viewer Software.
After going through the whole solution, I found that with this process I can only backup Horde emails in one format. Actually, I was looking for something to download it in other email data file or cloud-application.
Learnings from User’s Queries
While searching for the solution that I got various user’s queries that were somehow familiar to mine as mentioned:
I found these queries somehow related to my own situation, as I was also exploring for a backup solution.
While reading these from the forums, I got a solution Email Backup Wizard from BitRecover. Then, I started exploring for the same. I found it something the same as I was looking for.
Main Challenge
The solution is straightforward and the same that I was exploring. The biggest challenge or can say it as a concern that is it safe to invest in the application.
Then, I contacted at their support to know in detail about the application. The person suggested me to use free trial of software before purchasing the full version of the software.
It seems interesting and worthy as well. I used the free demo of tool. Using free of cost demo version of tool helped me to understand the software’s working completely. It cleared all my doubts related to data security, integrity, formatting, etc. after migration.
Migration Process
Once I used the free demo then, I invested over the application to migrate data from Horde mail to desired email data file or cloud-application directly.
Let us check the steps to migrate emails from Horde mailbox.
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To Save on Email Data File
To Save on Cloud-Application
To Backup on Cloud-based Application
By concluding, I must say that selection of precise solution is difficult but not impossible. Once you have it, it’s easy to perform backup.