Take your mail with you
One download, everything in it.
Settings → Export prepares your workspace as one zip in the background: every message rebuilt into mbox files another mail app opens, plus contacts, calendar, labels, rules, templates and settings.
In short
What is an email export?
An email export copies a mailbox into files another mail app can open, usually mbox or .eml. A full one also carries the folders, contacts and calendar.
How it works
A rebuild, labelled as one
The mailbox keeps each message as parsed parts, not the bytes that arrived. The archive carries text, HTML, attachments, addresses, dates and threading headers, marks every message as rebuilt, and has no DKIM signature.
Sealed mail leaves sealed
Encrypted mail is decrypted in your browser and never on our side, so the archive carries the ciphertext as stored, marks each sealed message and lists it in the manifest. The key stays with you.
Gaps are named, not skipped
A deleted file is listed in the manifest by name and date instead of being promised. Anything that could not be read is listed there too, with the reason.
What you get
In the product today
An mbox per folder
Inbox, Sent, Archive and the rest, each message once with its attachments inside.
Contacts and calendar
A vCard file for any address book and an .ics file for any calendar.
A manifest of gaps
Sealed messages, deleted files and anything unreadable, each listed by name.
Your key stays yours
Only public keys go in. Back up the private one from the Encryption tab.
Good practice
Getting the most out of it
- 01
Back up your key first
Sealed mail leaves the archive as ciphertext, and only your private key opens it.
- 02
Keep the passphrase too
The file needs your passphrase to open, so keep both in a password manager.
- 03
Export before you delete
Deleting a workspace erases its mail for good, so download the archive first.
Where it stands
Good to know
- A download for every member
- Only the workspace owner, and members whose role holds every permission, can export, and each workspace gets one export a day.
- The message as it arrived
- The mailbox keeps parsed parts, so no DKIM signature or exact part boundaries.
- Readable sealed mail
- Encrypted messages leave as ciphertext, and only your key opens them.
Questions
Asked often
Keep going
Works well with
Bring the mail you already have: a Google Takeout export from Gmail, or an .mbox file from Apple Mail, Thunderbird and most desktop apps, threaded and dated as it was.
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