Figure 3: Specify your destination directory Click on it and choose a directory for export. Select it, check the Export folders as single files box, Browse will ungrey. Figure 2: ImportExportTools offers lots of optionsīefore we can export any e-mails however, we need to visit Options to specify a directory. Now, go back to the Tools menu and the addon will have been appended to the drop-down list. If prompted, restart Thunderbird and you're done. Figure 1: Installing the xpi is straightforward Click on Select Add-on from File and install. Visit the link above and download the addon.Open Thunderbird, select Add-ons from the Tools drop-down menu and then click on the little cog icon immediately to the left of the search bar.

What is it? A simple Addon for Thunderbird called ImportExportTools. It doesn't require concatenated commands in a terminal or a free-standing piece of GUI software with possible dependencies. With Thunderbird configured with IMAP, GMVault backing up and restoring GMail it may seem that the belt and braces approach is complete-but there is one thing more we can do to make our e-mails fully accessible offline without an e-mail client. It would have been the icing on the cake if it was. But, of course, that was never the intended purpose of GMVault.

Namely, that as backed up e-mails had no recognizable titles, it was virtually impossible to identify specific messages. In a previous article on syncing and restoring your GMail account with the excellent GMVault I voiced one minor and perhaps unfair criticism.

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