Backup your email
Create local backups from any IMAP account. Your email lands on your own hard drive in open mbox format — accessible forever, with or without InboxFerry.
InboxFerry
Back up your email to your own computer
Always yours, never locked in. InboxFerry saves your IMAP mail to your hard drive in open mbox format — no cloud, no subscription required.
Who this is for
InboxFerry is for people who want to:
- Switch email providers without losing years of history
- Leave a job and keep a local copy of work correspondence
- Archive a domain before it expires
- Just keep a local backup — because cloud services can go away
Available for macOS and Windows. From €39 — one-time, yours forever.
Try free — buy when ready. Trial: 100 messages per run, no time limit.
- Read-only by design — never modifies your mailbox
- Local-only — nothing uploaded to any server
- No account needed — no cloud, no subscription
- Open mbox format — Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and 40 years of tools
- One-time price — not rent
Migrate between accounts
Copy messages from one IMAP server to another. Change providers, leave a job, archive a domain — move your mail without losing anything.
Open format, long-term access
Saves in mbox, the standard format supported by Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and every serious mail tool built in the last 40 years.