Outlook Web Access account expiring - need to save emails

Hi guys,


the Outlook Web App email account that was provided to me by my university will expire the day after tomorrow.

Is there a convenient way for me to either save the emails to my computer or somehow forward them to another email account (e.g. Gmail)?

Losing all those emails would be a Class-3 catastrophy.

Please help.

 

hi
if you have thousands then i dont know any quick way of doing this but one by one forward/send to either gmail/hotmail or yahoo account.
if you think you will still receive mail to that outlook account then i guess you should be able to redirect all the mail as well to one of the above.
ive only ever done it with yahoo.co.uk when it closed and directed it to yahoo.com which i am still receiving today even though the old email closed a couple of years ago.

 

Use something like thunderbird or desktop outlook to download them all from the server?

 

It should have a POP account access and the you can just set it up with an email client and download.

 

Normally, he should have one.

 

Excellent advice, thank you. Nice to see people who are part of the solution.

I've done just that and forwarded all incoming emails from my Webmail account to my Hotmail account. Seems to be working O.K, except for the test mails that I sent to from my Yahoo account to my school email, they don't seem to come through.

Thanks a bunch. I've just downloaded Thunderbird, set up my account data and lo and behold, it's all there! Now I still need to save a copy of them, I think I'm gonna use this add-on. What file format should I use, particularly if I want to import the backup file to Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail?


EDIT: I just noticed that Outlook.com (Hotmail) allows you to import entire email accounts. I tried it out and got 618 of 622 of my school emails successfully copied to my free outlook/hotmail email account. So no need to forward emails one by one; on outlook.com just go to Settings -> Import email accounts.