{"id":2805,"date":"2025-03-27T08:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:06:19","slug":"how-to-back-up-and-restore-emails-in-cpanel-webmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/how-to-back-up-and-restore-emails-in-cpanel-webmail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Back up and Restore Emails in cPanel Webmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/95cvxn5SVfs?rel=0;si=vHHcMUgZTUp84HTi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you use cPanel mail service for your domain, it is possible to\u00a0<b>back up\u00a0<\/b><b>(export)\u00a0<\/b>your emails using Roundcube web-interface. A built-in <b>restore<\/b><b>\u00a0(import)\u00a0<\/b>option is available in Roundcube webmail now. You can use one of the following to <a title=\"How to Access your Email on cPanel\" href=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/how-to-access-your-professional-email-telamail-via-cpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">access cPanel webmail:<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>http:\/\/yourdomain.com\/webmail<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>https:\/\/serverXX.web-hosting.com\/webmail<\/i>\u00a0(replace serverXX with your actual cPanel account server name).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><b>Roundcube<\/b><\/p>\n<div>In order to\u00a0<b>back up (export)<\/b>\u00a0emails to your local computer, select the required email(s) and click on\u00a0<b>More<\/b>\u00a0icon in the bar above:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img data-dominant-color=\"f9fafa\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f9fafa;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2813 aligncenter not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130759.884-png-e1742992207551-800x275.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130759.884-png-e1742992207551-800x275.avif 800w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130759.884-png-e1742992207551-768x264.avif 768w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130759.884-png-e1742992207551.avif 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>In the dropdown list, select the <strong>Export<\/strong> option.<\/div>\n<div><img data-dominant-color=\"f8f9f9\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f8f9f9;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2809 size-medium aligncenter not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130033.384-png-e1742991571855-800x283.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130033.384-png-e1742991571855-800x283.avif 800w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130033.384-png-e1742991571855-768x272.avif 768w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130033.384-png-e1742991571855.avif 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>NOTE: .eml files are supported by most of the email services, so you can easily restore them later on different servers. Unfortunately, Roundcube does not provide convenient functionality to download many emails at once.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To import your emails, select the<strong> Import<\/strong> option from the dropdown. <img data-dominant-color=\"f8f9f9\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f8f9f9;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2808 size-medium aligncenter not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T125952.086-png-e1742991677599-800x278.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T125952.086-png-e1742991677599-800x278.avif 800w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T125952.086-png-e1742991677599-768x266.avif 768w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T125952.086-png-e1742991677599.avif 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>After this, choose the back up file you wish to import and click Import.<\/div>\n<div><img data-dominant-color=\"dfe2e3\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #dfe2e3;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2810 aligncenter not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130241.032-711x400.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"711\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130241.032-711x400.avif 711w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130241.032-768x432.avif 768w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-26T130241.032-png.avif 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Once done, you will get a notification the messages have been successfully imported.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With this you can successfully backup or restore your emails. Happy Hosting\ud83c\udf1f.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff If you use cPanel mail service for your domain, it is possible to\u00a0back up\u00a0(export)\u00a0your emails using Roundcube web-interface. A built-in restore\u00a0(import)\u00a0option is available in Roundcube webmail now. You can use one of the following to access cPanel webmail: http:\/\/yourdomain.com\/webmail https:\/\/serverXX.web-hosting.com\/webmail\u00a0(replace serverXX with your actual cPanel account server name). Roundcube In order to\u00a0back up (export)\u00a0emails&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,32],"tags":[40,48],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-email","category-cpanel","tag-cpanel","tag-email-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}