You can automatically create backup files of your emails and save them to offline storage. These files will contain all of the email content and can be opened by various email applications that support email files. This is a great way to archive your emails using cloud servers or other archiving options. You can also use a file search to search through the email contents.
The email backup files will be exact copies of the emails in your email accounts. You can choose which email folders and email accounts to backup.

To turn on email file backup, open the edit email account screen. View
Tap to open the "Advanced" section. Scroll to the bottom of this section and tap on Backup to email files.

In the top of the file backup settings screen you can turn on the backup. You will be asked to choose a location for the email backup files. You can select a cloud server or the local files screen inside AltaMail. This is our help section for adding cloud servers. View
The email account name will automatically be added to the backup folder location.
You can use our free WePrint helper app to save backup email files to your Mac or PC. Details

Once you have chosen a file location you can turn on the backup setting for each email folder.

The backup process will run in the background while you have AltaMail open. This process may take some time to complete due to the number of emails and speed of the network. The backup process will not run while the backup settings window is open.
Emails will need to be downloaded fully before they can be backed up. If you have the preload account settings off then there will be a delay saving backup files until emails are downloaded from the email server. Settings

If there are any errors in the backup process then these errors will appear in the backup settings screen. Errors may be caused by network problems or login details for cloud servers. You will also see a red alert icon beside the email account name in the left side panel. Tapping on this alert icon will show the backup settings screen. Tap on the error message in the backup settings screen to show all of the error details.

You tap on the Settings button in the backup settings screen to change additional options:
Remove files when emails are deleted - This option will remove any extra files in the backup folder. These files could be from emails that you have removed. Turn this option off to keep all emails files even when the emails are deleted.
Use Mobile Data - This option will allow the backup to proceed when your device is using mobile data
File name starts with date - This option will display the date part of the file name at the start or end of the file name. This can be useful if you want to sort the email files by date. The rest of the file name will be the email subject.
Create folders for each year - This option will create a new folder for each year using the email date. Each year folder will contain the emails from that year.
Save an extra searchable text file - This option will save an additional text based file with a summary of the email. This text file can be used in file based searches for email content, senders and other email details.

After you have made changes to the settings you may want to manually delete the email backup files to restart the process again.

You can see the backup status for emails in the folder view. Emails that have been backed up will show a green download icon in the top right of the email detail. You can turn off the display of this status in the Email Appearance settings. View