✉️ IMAP Mailbox Backup 📥 Write Messages Back ⚡ Incremental by UID 📄 Standard .eml ✉️ IMAP Mailbox Backup 📥 Write Messages Back ⚡ Incremental by UID 📄 Standard .eml
Email Backup

Your Business Email Deserves a Backup Too
IMAP Mailbox Backup & Restore

Your website backup does not cover your email. Yet your quotes, order correspondence and contracts live in your mailbox. Yedekalma treats email as a first-class component alongside files and databases: mailboxes are backed up over IMAP and messages can be written back when you need them.

No credit card required · Current campaign: free until the end of the year

The Overlooked Risk

A Site Backup Will Not Save Your Email

In each of these scenarios your file and database backups are intact — and your email is still gone.

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Someone deleted it

An employee removes a folder or years of correspondence. If the trash is emptied too, hosting will not bring it back.

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Hosting or server change

Migration is where most email is lost; mailboxes are frequently transferred incompletely.

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Suspended account

A late payment or quota breach closes the account and cuts off mailbox access with it.

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Departing staff

If a leaver's mailbox is not backed up before it is closed, institutional memory goes with them.

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Ransomware

When a server is encrypted, the mail store is encrypted too. Without an independent copy you are negotiating.

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Disputes and proof

The evidence for a quote or approval is often a single email. If it is gone, the burden of proof is yours.

Details

How Email Backup Works

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Standard .eml — no lock-in

With encryption off, each message is stored as a universal .eml file, openable directly in Outlook or Thunderbird, so your backup does not depend on us. If you turn on optional AES-256 encryption, the archive is opened with the Yedekalma module or the WordPress plugin.

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Write back to the mailbox

Restores add messages back over IMAP. Duplicate detection by Message-ID means no double entries appear.

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Incremental by UID

With the optional incremental mode, each message is tracked by its IMAP UID, so only new messages are downloaded; a full backup still runs periodically.

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Folder structure preserved

Inbox, Sent and your own folders are backed up with their structure intact.

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Malicious messages left out

Messages carrying malicious attachments are always left out of the archive and reported in the panel, so a restore does not bring them back. Your mailbox itself is not scanned or changed.

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Message counts reported

Every backup reports how many messages were retrieved. A zero count is not passed over silently — it raises a warning.

What we do not do

Email backup works over IMAP. The PHP imap extension must be enabled on your server. If your mailbox is not reachable over IMAP — a POP3-only server, or one closed to external access — this component cannot run. In that case the backup does not quietly report success with nothing in it; you are told.

We never alter backed-up data: no masking, no truncation, no anonymisation. Your restored mail is exactly what was there when the backup ran — the only exception being messages with malicious attachments, which are left out and reported.

FAQ

Email Backup — Frequently Asked Questions

With encryption off, each message is written as a standard .eml file into an eposta folder inside the backup. That is a universal format you can open directly in Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail — so even if your subscription ends, your backups remain readable. If you turn on optional AES-256 encryption, the archive is opened with the Yedekalma module or the WordPress plugin.
You start a restore from the panel and messages are written back to your mailbox over IMAP, reappearing in your client. Duplicate detection by Message-ID prevents the same message being added twice, so you do not end up with double entries.
Not if you turn on the optional incremental mode, which covers email as well. Each message is tracked by its IMAP UID and only messages that arrived since the previous backup are downloaded, which keeps both time and storage small even for mailboxes with tens of thousands of messages; a full backup still runs periodically.
Your IMAP credentials are kept in the encrypted secret store of the module running on your own server, and the connection is made from your server. Messages go straight to your chosen storage target, and backup files are not stored on our servers.
You can add your domain's mailboxes with no limit on their number. The price is not based on how many mailboxes you have; it is set only by backup frequency.
Webmail working does not mean IMAP is open externally. The two most common causes are the server blocking outside IMAP access and an authentication method mismatch (some panels require CRAM-MD5). The panel reports this as an error rather than hiding it, and it is usually solved with the correct IMAP host and port, typically 993 over SSL.
Yes. If you already back up your email with another solution, you can leave this component on manual — and you don't pay for a component that is switched off. See the pricing page for details.
Most website backup solutions only cover files and the database; email falls outside that scope. Yet at most companies, business correspondence, quotes, order confirmations and contracts live in the mailbox. If your hosting account is deleted, or a user accidentally deletes a folder, your site backup won't bring that data back.

Bring Your Email Under the Same Protection

Files, database and email — one panel, one subscription. Free until the end of the year in the current campaign.

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