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newbury
New Contributor II
3 years ago
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What would be the best way to backup (bulk save) email?

I've accumulated years of email and am going to have to move to a new mail provider.  Most important "stuff" I think I've saved.  But I would like to be able just save - in text form - everything I h...
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    Darkatt
    3 years ago

    Use the ARCHIVE function on your email client to copy ALL emails from your Cox account to a folder on your computer. 

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AAstevens
New Contributor III
3 years ago

download Thunderbird email client, have it connect to your cox account, then select all email, and save as, it should save all of the selected emails as a standard .eml file with a filename and date-stamp of received time in a nice way, you can then delete all the existing email on your account. you will still be able to use Thunderbird as the email client for cox, and how many other email accounts you have. since i have upwards of 15 email accounts, its nice to have them all in one place.