My Apple Mail email client is a chaos nowadays. There are numerous emails, all unorganized. I need to clean it up a bit and organize the emails in segments. Before I do that I need to backup my Apple Mail email database so that when I organize I don't loose any email and if I did I can retrieve it from the backup I will create.
Does anyone have a solution for backing up Apple Mail email database. I am looking for a quick and handy solution, not the export function. That takes up ages to export the emails.
Best Answer
In mail.app, you can select a folder and from the main menu choose ‘Mailbox > Export Mailbox’, select a location for the export file and click ‘choose’. Mail exports the mailbox as an .mbox package.
See also this page: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19174?locale=en_US http://www.mailbackupx.com/how-to-scenerios/how-to-backup-apple-mac-mail-mails-on-mac.html