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Q&A How to download all mail in Claws-mail

Right-click the folder whose mail you want to download and click download messages in the context menu. This is absent from the manual (I suppose one is expected to discover it in the GUI) and ther...

posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Quasímodo‭ · 2022-03-14T17:29:55Z (about 2 years ago)
Right-click the folder whose mail you want to download and click _download messages_ in the context menu. This is absent from the manual (I suppose one is expected to discover it in the GUI) and there does not seem to be a way to do that for all folders in a single action, but it is good enough.

An alternative is to use the menu _File > Export to [mbox][1] file_.

> MBox
>
> A mailbox format in which all mail is concatenated and stored in a single file. The mbox format supported by Claws Mail is mboxrd. 

[1]: https://www.claws-mail.org/manual/claws-mail-manual.html#ap_glossary