Outlook – How to back up OWA exchange emails without Outlook

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My university uses Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) e-mail. Soon they will close my e-mail account as my course has ended, but I really do not want to lose the archive of emails and attachments.

I've read a backup to something called a .pst can be made if one has access to Microsoft Outlook but I do not.

Is there any other way I could back these up? (preferably on Ubuntu 12.04 but I also have access to Win 7 if need be).

One idea I played with is using davmail to allow access via Thunderbird and performing some kind of backup with that. However, I cannot seem to get past Authentication failed: invalid user or password, retry with domain\user.

Best Answer

On Ubuntu, install davmail and follow the instructions on their website for setting up Thunderbird. In particular you may need domain\user rather than just user and I needed davmail.enableEws=false in the properties file. When the OWA mail is working with Thunderbird, go to account settings->copies and folders and set up a local archive. Finally, select mails to back up and archive them to the local folder.

Even better: use the addon ImportExportTools to create local html copies with attachments of all your folders.

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