✉️ 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.

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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.

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

Each message is stored as a universal .eml file, openable directly in Outlook or Thunderbird. Your backup does not depend on us.

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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.

Incremental by UID

Each message is tracked by its IMAP UID, so only new messages are downloaded. Large mailboxes are never rescanned in full.

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Folder structure preserved

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

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Attachment scanning

Backed-up messages are scanned for malicious attachments so a restore does not reintroduce a threat.

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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. 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.

FAQ

Email Backup — Frequently Asked Questions

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.
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.
No. Incremental backup 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.
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 without passing through ours.
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.

Bring Your Email Under the Same Protection

Files, database and email — one panel, one subscription. 14 days free.

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