{"id":103054,"date":"2021-09-24T08:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=103054"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:37:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:37:40","slug":"how-to-back-up-old-email-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/how-to-back-up-old-email-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Back Up Old Email Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Growing up, a common conversation I overheard between my mom and grandma went like this: \u201cDo you have that recipe from our great aunt?\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cSure, I do. Let me email it to you. Also, I have some funny jokes to forward along.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

My mom, and I\u2019m guessing many others too, have kept every email they\u2019ve ever received from their parents, family, and friends because they don\u2019t want to lose the funny jokes, family recipes, announcements, and more that they\u2019ve sent back and forth over the years. In the moment, our email accounts can feel like a day-to-day concern, or worse, a repository of spam. But for most of us, every email account holds some amount of treasured memories.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Nowadays, my mom has many different email accounts. But, she wanted to find a way to keep all of those emails she loved without having to keep the accounts themselves. She also found that she had so many emails in her inbox that she was running out of storage space.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Buying more storage can become expensive and doesn\u2019t guarantee that those emails are safely backed up and remain accessible. One option is to download the emails, delete them in the client, and back them up somewhere reliable and accessible for the long term.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

If you\u2019re looking for a way to keep old emails or just want to clean up your inbox storage because you\u2019re running out of space, this post walks you through the steps of how to download your data from various email platforms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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We\u2019ve gathered a handful of guides to help you protect content across many different platforms\u2014including social media, sync services, and more. We\u2019re working on developing this list\u2014please comment below if you\u2019d like to see another platform covered.<\/p>\r\n