How to backup Roundcube Emails to PST?

Are you managing a company and using Roundcube webmail to manage emails, contacts, calendars,  and more for your business account? Also looking for a solution to store Roundcube emails in PST format so that you can open them on Microsoft Outlook? If yes, then you landed on the right page. In this blog, we have written an automated method on how to back up Roundcube emails to PST.

Overview

Roundcube is a free open-source webmail service to manage business emails, contacts, calendars, and more provided with the cPanel. The business account is accessed from anywhere with the help of the internet, as it is a web-based email client application. As it is a web-based application, there are situations when a webmail account is corrupted due to a malware attack and phishing.

So, it is necessary to take a backup of Roundcube emails to PST your local drive or external storage system in PST or other file formats.

Why do we need to back up Roundcube emails to PST?

There could be several reasons to back up Roundcube emails to PST, as Roundcube doesn’t provide an in-built facility to export all emails to the local drive.

MS Outlook also provides advanced features, due to which many business organisations want to switch to it.

Features: Outlook offers better features than Roundcube webmail, and it provides advanced features to protect emails.

Email management: Outlook offers splendid email management features, and it has a simple and intuitive graphical interface that is easy to use.

Cross-platform: Outlook is compatible on multiple devices like desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

Automated method to backup Roundcube emails to PST

With eSoftTools Webmail Backup Software, you can directly store emails from Roundcube to a local drive in different file formats such as PST, EML, EMLX, HTML, MSG, MBOX, MHTML, PDF, and Thunderbird. It is the smartest and powerful tool to back up webmail email clients like Roundcube, Horde Mail, SquirrelMail, etc.

Key features

• Provides an email filtering option that can filter emails according to date and export them to the local drive. 
• With its easy-to-use graphical interface, you can export emails to your local drive in a few clicks. 
• Consistent with all editions of the Windows Operating System, such as Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP, and older versions. 
• Can manually choose a location to save the resultant output file on the hard drive. 
• Export emails from the webmail account to a single MBOX file and separate MBOX folders.
• Preserve the meta-properties of emails such as  To, cc, bcc, subject, body, and date during the backup process. 

Steps to backup Roundcube emails to PST

1. Download and install eSoftTools Webmail Backup Software on your computer.
2. Open the software and input login details of your webmail account( Email, Password, Port Name & Host Name).
3. After adding LogIn details, press the Login button and open the software.
4. The software will load all emails from the mailbox and select the emails you want to export.
5. Choose the export option as Save in PST from the list of options.
6. Select the location where you want to save the output file.
7. Use other options, such as Mail filter if you want to filter emails.
8. At last, click on the Save Backup button and save all the emails on the hard drive.    

Conclusion

In this blog, we have explained a way by which you can save your business emails from the Roundcube webmail client to a local drive in PST format and use it in Microsoft Outlook. It is a safe and secure method if you want to switch from Roundcube to the Microsoft Outlook email client.