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 needdomain\user
rather than justuser
and I neededdavmail.enableEws=false
in the properties file. When the OWA mail is working with Thunderbird, go toaccount 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.