Emails backup from cpanel

Question

can someone please tell me how i can backup emails from cpanel without having to backup the full site? Thanks for answering

Answer 1

Aren't they just files in /mail/[email-addr] ?

So just download them using an FTP client.

Answer 2

You can not backup your emails using ftp. If you want to backup your mails then you have to download the mails using pop3. There is no other way you can download your mails.

Answer 3

You can download the mails using command line or FTP. Or simple way is, configure the email account in mail client, download the all emails on your local system.

Else you can download the emails by configuring them using POP3.

Most of the time, only emails can't be restored so best is to configure the email account and download them.