How to download emails in a folder

Terry · 3 Jul 2019, 05:20 PM

To download the messages of a folder as a zip file. In the current interface, it is rather well hidden. Go to Settings => Folders and click on Advanced (top right). Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Purge//Download//Remove duplicates.... The page that appears allows you to select a folder and one of the options is to download the contents of the folder as a zip file.

Hope this will help someone....yes I know its not new but perhaps forgotten for some of you or for people who don't use Thunderbird etc.

BritTim · 3 Jul 2019, 05:42 PM

You can also download one or more messages in a list of messages in a folder or search. Just select the messages you want to be included in the zip file, and you are given the download zip option.

JeremyNicoll · 3 Jul 2019, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by BritTim

You can also download one or more messages in a list of messages in a folder or search. Just select the messages you want to be included in the zip file, and you are given the download zip option.

Where? If I select a bunch of things the Toolbar buttons remain as: Archive Delete ReportSpam MoveTo More, and the latter only offers the usual: Mark as Read, Mark as Unread, Pin, Unpin, Forward as Attachment.

Terry · 3 Jul 2019, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by BritTim

You can also download one or more messages in a list of messages in a folder or search. Just select the messages you want to be included in the zip file, and you are given the download zip option.

We cant do that as there is no where to include the selected message in a Zip file or perhaps we are looking in the wrong place....or something has been changed.

BritTim · 4 Jul 2019, 12:48 AM

Very sorry. I forgot the feature to download zip from the message list had been retired. What there is now is less convenient. You can select messages, forward them to yourself as attachments, open the new message, select the attachments and download them as a zip file. Then delete the message you created to get the attachments to save. In most cases, it will probably be too much trouble.

Terry · 4 Jul 2019, 12:50 PM

Edit......

JeremyNicoll · 5 Jul 2019, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by BritTim

Very sorry. I forgot the feature to download zip from the message list had been retired. What there is now is less convenient. You can select messages, forward them to yourself as attachments, open the new message, select the attachments and download them as a zip file. Then delete the message you created to get the attachments to save. In most cases, it will probably be too much trouble.

Ah, ok. Ironically I've used that forward-to-me-at-FM method to get at mails from another provider's less versatile webmail system, without ever thinking of doing it entirely within my FM account.

JeremyNicoll · 5 Jul 2019, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Terry

Edit......

Why do you keep adding these meaningless entries to forum messages?

3 Jul 2019, 05:20 PM	#1
Terry The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: VK4 Posts: 3,012	How to download emails in a folder To download the messages of a folder as a zip file. In the current interface, it is rather well hidden. Go to Settings => Folders and click on Advanced (top right). Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Purge//Download//Remove duplicates.... The page that appears allows you to select a folder and one of the options is to download the contents of the folder as a zip file. Hope this will help someone....yes I know its not new but perhaps forgotten for some of you or for people who don't use Thunderbird etc.

4 Jul 2019, 12:50 PM	#6
Terry The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: VK4 Posts: 3,012	Edit...... Last edited by Terry : 4 Jul 2019 at 06:29 PM.

3 Jul 2019, 05:42 PM	#2
BritTim The "e" in e-mail Join Date: May 2003 Location: mostly in Thailand Posts: 3,090	You can also download one or more messages in a list of messages in a folder or search. Just select the messages you want to be included in the zip file, and you are given the download zip option.

4 Jul 2019, 12:48 AM	#5
BritTim The "e" in e-mail Join Date: May 2003 Location: mostly in Thailand Posts: 3,090	Very sorry. I forgot the feature to download zip from the message list had been retired. What there is now is less convenient. You can select messages, forward them to yourself as attachments, open the new message, select the attachments and download them as a zip file. Then delete the message you created to get the attachments to save. In most cases, it will probably be too much trouble.