Steps to Backup Emails from IMAP Accounts on Mac OS

Backup IMAP mailboxes into 15+ widely used saving options on macOS.

STEP 1

Download and open IMAP Backup Software for Mac. on your Mac machine. The first screen will be displayed as shown below :

launch software 1
STEP 2

Enter IMAP account login details along with IMAP Host Name and Port Number in required fields and click Login button.

enter login details
STEP 3

Tool will connect to specified account and list all its associated items on the software pane with checkboxes.

view account folders list
STEP 4

Choose the saving type in which you want to backup your important emails. You will get the following options - PST, EML, EMLx, MSG, HTML, MHT, CSV, MBOX, Thunderbird, OLM, DOC, TXT, PDF, IMAP, Gmail, G Suite, Office 365, Outlook.com, Yahoo, Rediffmail, GoogleDrive, Dropbox.

saving options
STEP 5

In case you have chosen PST as a saving type, you will get the following sub-options -

pst options
STEP 6

If you have applied PDF option, then tool will show the required options. You can use them as per need and carry out the desired result -

pdf options
STEP 7

There are lot of email apps that use MBOX fle type to store mailbox folder of user account. So, if you want to backup your emails in MBOX format, then you will get the following options -

mbox option
STEP 8

To backup emails into a required IMAP account directly, IMAP Server will provide following options to ease your task -

imap option
STEP 9

For cloud saving options, you just need to provide the credentials and the tool will backup all emails into provided account directly without data loss.

For Gmail:

STEP 8

For Office 365:

STEP 8
STEP 10

The tool also has the ability to backup emails into different Cloud Drive options as well -

For Google Drive:

STEP 8

For Dropbox:

STEP 8
STEP 11

With each saving option, the software provides various advance filters to choose from. The listed filters are -

  • Date Range
  • From
  • To
  • Subject
  • Use selective export settings for mail folders
    • Only export Sent Folder
    • Exclude exporting email body content and attachments
filters
STEP 12

Last, press the Start Backup button and start the backup process.

STEP 8
STEP 13

Verify the entire email backup procedure through Email Backup Report as shown -

STEP 8
STEP 14

Tool will perform the backup of all emails into required saving option in few seconds. Once, the process is finished, it will show pop-up on your screen displaying "Conversion Completed" message. Click on OK to exit.

STEP 8
STEP 15

Now, the software will open the auto-generate log report which can be saved for future use, if needed. It will display the email backup information such as start/end time, saving option, total count etc.

STEP 11