Plesk

How to export emails from Plesk?

Question

How to export emails from Plesk?

Answer

There is no direct feature to exports emails from Plesk.
As a workaround, it is possible to download emails using one of the following approaches:

Create mail backup in Plesk:

  1. Log into Plesk.

  2. Go to Domains > example.com > Backup & Restore > Back Up.

  3. Select "Mail messages" and "Configuration" only.

  4. Press OK to create a backup.

Create mail backup from the file system directly

  1. Connect to the server via SSH.

  2. Create a backup of the email folder for a customer. For example:

    # tar -zcvf jdoe_example.com.tar.gz /var/qmail/mailnames/example.com/jdoe/

Note: replace jdoe and example.com with appropriate system user and domain name.

Download emails using webmail interface

How to Export Emails in Webmail using Roundcube and Horde

Note: skip "Step 1" from the instruction above for both Roundcube and Horde.