Best way to extract email from OWA

[Velvis]

I have a client who wants to pull email out of a few old email accounts before shutting them down for good. There is no Outlook, whats the best way to do this?

 

[kip]

You can't do anything like this in OWA. Use ordinary Outlook to connect to the mailbox, instead. Then export the mailbox contents, or drag-drop them all out.

 

[altrenda]

Saying OWA I assume you mean the mail is on an Exchange server.

If you have a Mac you can use Mac Mail to pull the messages.

On Windows without Oulook try Thunderbird with the Exquilla add on.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/sm...derbird-email-client-to-your-exchange-server/

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

What type of mail server? What host?

 

[Velvis]

exg5.exghost.com

 

[RegEdit]

Maybe in the future they should use Mozilla Thunderbird. I found this tutorial on restoring a Thunderbird profile. http://www.peterdzoghi.net/moz-thunderbird.html

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

exg5.exghost.com

OK so no local server you can RDP to I take it?
Yeah...setup outlook temporarily and export to PST. I know you said there is no Outlook...but just setup any Outlook to it or even a trial of Outlook.

 

[Geekgirl117]

if there is no outlook, can you simply download windows live mail or thunderbird to access the mail? at least if you get it into a client it will pull it to the system locally so you can transfer it elsewhere

 

[drjones]

As already stated, Outlook is the best as it's the most common program, Thunderbird would work though I have no experience with it, you could also use a free utility called MailStore to download/archive the emails.

I use MailStore to backup my personal Gmail....

 

[MotzTech]

Gotta be careful with MailStore, it's only free for personal use. If this is for your clients personal E-mail, it's probably ok.