You can export your account data, including email messages and attachments, contacts, calendar, tasks, and Briefcase folders, or you can export specific items in your account. You can then save the data to your computer or other locations as a backup, or import the information into another application..
Note: When you export individual contact folders, they are saved as .csv files; individual calendar folders are saved as .ics files.
The data are copied, not removed from your account.
You export the file from the Preferences > Import/Export page.
Export all account data including messages and attachments, calendar data and contact lists in all folders
Use Advanced settings to export specific account data
Export Calendar
Export Contacts
Go to Preferences>Import/Export
In Export, select the Type as Account
Make sure Source displays All folders.
Click Export.
In the dialog that opens, select Save File and select where to save the file.
The account data is saved as a tgz file.
Go to Preferences>Import/Export.
In Export, select the Type as Account.
In the Source field, select the folder to export. All data under that folder is exported.
If the Source is All folders, the data types field can be used to filter data by folder type. If the source is a specific folder, the data type does not matter
To select data by date, enter a start and end date. Only data between these dates are exported.
To search for specific information, enter a search query in the Search filter field. Only data that matches that query is exported.
In Other, check Only export content files, exclude meta data when the data being exported will being imported into a non-Zimbra email account. .
Click Export.
In the dialog that opens, select Save File and select where to save the file.
Files are saves in the following format:
Each message is exported as a .eml file
Each contacts is exported as a.vcf file
Each Calendar item is exported as a.appt.meta file
Go to Preferences>Import/Export.
In Export, select the Type as Calendar.
In the Source field select the calendar to export.
Click Export.
In the dialog that opens, select Save File and select where to save the file.
The calendar is saved as an .ics file that can be imported into any calendar application that supports .ics.
Go to Preferences>Import/Export.
In Export, select the Type as Contacts.
Select the contact format to export the contact file as.
Windows Live Contacts
Outlook contacts
Account contacts (this keeps the contact information in the same format is it is in)
Thunderbird
Outlook 2003
Yahoo contacts
In the Source select the contact list to export.
Click Export.
In the dialog that opens, select Save File and select where to save the file.
The contacts file is saved as an .csv file, with the contact information organized for the format you selected.