How can I save these emails on my computer?

Procédure

How do I back up emails with Thunderbird?

To back up and restore your data with Thunderbird (free software), click here.

How do I back up emails with Outlook?

1. Open your email software and click on the"File" button at the top of the page to configure your email address.

2. Click on the"Add an account" button

3. Fill in the following information in the form:

• Name: Your name
• Emailaddress: This is the email address for which you wish to retrieve content.
• Password: The password attached to your email address.

Then tick the"Manual configuration or additional server types" box and click the"Next" button.

4. Choose"Pop or Imap" and click on the "Next" button.

5. Complete the form as follows:

• Account type: Set to POP if you want to change from Web to cPanel. This will allow you to save all your messages on Outlook. In fact, when configured on Imap, as soon as you change your Web package, the emails contained in Webmail will also be deleted.
• Incoming mail server: enter mailXX.lwspanel.com , you can retrieve the information by going to the"Email Administration" section and clicking on"Configure" behind the email address concerned.
• Outgoing mail server (SMTP): this is the same server as the incoming mail server.
• Username: Enter the full email address.
• Password: Enter the password associated with your email address.

6. Click on the"Additional settings" button.

7. Go to the"Outgoing server" tab and tick the boxes"My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication" and"Use the same settings as my incoming mail server".

8. Go to "Advanced options" and tick the "This server requires an encrypted connection" box under the POP server. Change the SMTP port to one of the following:

• 465 if you are using an SSL/TLS connection
• 587 if you are not using an encrypted connection

Click on the"OK" button as soon as the configuration is complete.

9. Click on the "Next" button

10. A test should be performed. If the configuration is correct and no errors are visible, click on"Close".

11. Finally, click the "Finish" button.

How do I restore emails to my Webmail from Outlook?

If you change Web formulas, you can quickly restore emails from your Outlook software to your Webmail by following the steps below:

1. First of all, you need to create your email address for the package concerned, using the following procedures:

• How to create your email address on cPanel ?
• How do I create an email address for a shared package?

2. Once the email address has been created on your plan, you will need to follow the same procedure as indicated in the previous chapter in order to create the email address on your software. However, you need to configure it using the IMAP protocol rather than the POP protocol.

3. Select the emails in the"Inbox" folder of the address you used to back up. To do this, select an email inbox and press [CTRL] + A at the same time.

4. Right-click on the mouse, then go to"Move" and then"Other folder".

5. Choose the folder in which to move the emails to the new mailbox, then click"OK" to confirm your request.

The emails will be visible in the Webmail of the email address of your new Web package. If you have a lot of emails, it may take a while to transfer them from Outlook to Webmail.

Conclusion

You are now able to back up an email inbox on your Outlook account as well as retransfer emails from Outlook to your Webmail on your Web hosting package with LWS.

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