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How to download your inbox from web outlook?
Can you export all emails from 365 Outlook Webmail to a desktop or external drive?
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Hi everyone,
Iโm leaving my current job soon, and would like to keep a record of all of my previous emails. Does anyone know how to download or create a duplicate of all existing emails and attachments? Iโm using web outlook.
Thank you
Here is the enhancement request. You can drag and drop emails to add them as attachments as a workaround (see this answer). You can download an email like this:
- Start a new message
- Click to edit the message in a new window.
- Select all emails you would like to download.
- Drag the emails to the new message. This will add them as attachments.
- Click the down arrow on the attachment and download the email message, or send the message to yourself and then download all attachments.
No you cannot. Outlook Web App is purely meant to send and receive email, but does not have a backup function.
If you want to backup email to an external medium, you will need a client such as Microsoft Outlook that supports this.
So, in order to make a proper backup, configure your account in a mailclient that supports making a backup. Just because OWA does not support it, doesn't mean its not possible. In modern mail clients such as MS Outlook and Thunderbird, just entering your email address and password automatically configures the client using autodiscovery. Not going for a mail client to make a backup and strictly limiting ones self to OWA is not necessary.
I am leaving a job and am wondering if it's possible to export/download an entire email archive from Outlook. I don't have access to the app - just the webmail link. I've read that for the most part no, it's not possible, since business accounts don't allow it. But then some other places of the internet say yes, as long as you have a 3rd party client to do the exporting/downloading for you... Are there workarounds for this? Thanks.