How To Extract Attachments from IMAP Server?

Are you searching for a method to extract attachments from an IMAP email account to a local drive? For users who want to do this job, this blog is the answer. In this blog, we have written answers on how to extract attachments from IMAP Server.

Overview

Web-based mail application uses IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol) protocol. This protocol allows web-based mail applications to access and save emails on the server with the help of the internet. Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook.com, Office 365, and Roundcube are web-based apps that use the IMAP protocol.

On cloud or web servers, IMAP-based mail applications save all user’s email profile data (emails, contacts, calendars and their associated attachments).

How to extract attachments from IMAP Server 

A smart solution to extract attachments from the IMAP server is eSoftTools IMAP attachment extractor software. This tool easily extracts/download attachments from your IMAP email account to your local drive. It can extract attachments from from IMAP emails, contacts, calendars and other items.

Within a single process, it can extract attachments from several IMAP email accounts. You can extract IMAP email account attachments and email addresses in the same software.

Also Read:- How to Import MBOX File to IMAP Server?

Steps to extract attachments from IMAP Server

Download, install, and load eSoftTools IMAP attachment extractor software in your system.

Choose your IMAP server and input your IMAP account credentials such as email address, password, port, and host.

Click Login and load the mailbox items in the software. 

• Click on the Extract Attachment button from the above menu and choose from the option- Extract Attachments folder-wise or Extract Attachments message-wise.

• In the filtering attachments extension, you can choose from the two options

• Predefined File Extension- From a list of multiple file types, choose and extract attachments of your required file type.

• Custom File Extension- Input the extension of file type that you want to extract from the IMAP email account (Single or multiple).

• Apply the mail filter option if you want to get attachments from filtered emails according to the Date Range( From and To).

• Choose the location where you want to save the extracted attachments.

At last press the Save attachments button and start extracting attachments from the IMAP email account.

Benefits of IMAP Attachment Extractor tool

• Easily extract attachments from IMAP account webmail and download it to the local drive of your system.
• Easily extract email addresses from the email header fields To, cc, bcc, and from and save them in CSV, TXT and HTML files.
• Extracts attachments from all IMAP and cloud-based applications like- Office 365, Gmail, YahooMail, Yandex, Zoho and others.
• Enables to extract attachments of any size without any size-related issues. 
• Provides the option to save extracted attachments Message-wise and folder-wise.
• The easy and user-friendly graphical interface allows technical and non-technical users to use it easily.
• Comfortable to run on any edition of the Windows operating system from Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and below versions.

Conclusion

The above blog describes the best and most effective solution to extract Attachments from IMAP Server. It is the most accurate solution to save attachments from an IMAP email account to a local drive. Users can save attachments to your desired location in their local drive.