Email Migration & Cloud Backup Solutions

Here you will get to know about all the methods to migrate the mailbox items of popular email clients. Email plays a very important role in our life and hence there are a large number of email clients available in the market. Some of them are Desktop-based while some are Cloud-based or Web-based email clients. Each of them have specified and additional features, increasing the challenge among them.

Some email clients are available only for a single platform while some are cross-platform email clients like Thunderbird & Outlook. But Outlook is a special case as it stores his mailbox files in two different files for different platforms like PST for Outlook for Windows while OLM for Mac Outlook. Some of the email clients like Thunderbird, Entourage, The Bat, Eudora, SeaMonkey, etc. store their mailbox in a MBOX file in each platform. Some inbuilt email clients like Windows Live Mail or Mac-Mail store their emails as .eml and .emlx format respectively. There are also some open source email clients like Zimbra which exports the mailbox data as TGZ file while IBM Lotus Notes supports NSF format for this. As most of the email clients supports different file format to Import/Export.

Therefore, if you want to access or transfer emails from one email client to another, then you need convert the exported mailbox file to their supportive format, then import that converted file in the application. You can convert the mailbox file using some manual method or applying some long and tricky procedure but free while on the other hand you can use a third party utility by paying some money easily and effortlessly. If you choose manual method, then it is to keep in mind that there is always a fear of loss/corrupt of data during migration or conversion while if you choose advanced solution you are free from the fear of loss of data as mostly third party utilities provides an error free solution. Now, it is up to you to choose which procedure you want to follow if you are deeply interested in email migration.

Similarly, if you choose to work online and uses Web-based or Cloud-based email client then there is always a need to take backup of your mailbox items in your local storage or hard drive. You can take backup or save emails, calendars, contacts, tasks, notes, events, etc from these Web-based email service providers like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Foxmail, Yandex Mail, GMX Mail, AOL Mail, Rediffmail, Comcast Mail, iCloud Mail, Proton Mail, Rackspace Mail or Office 365 as your desired file formats by choosing any method.

As manual methods are available for most of the email clients to backup like Google Takeout for Gmail Backup but sometimes, there are no manual solutions available for backup and hence in that case it is recommended to use a third party utility. Here you will get the best manual as well advanced solutions to migrate email clients or to take backup of cloud-based email services.