If I download e-mails from my account using a client like Thunderbird, can I just somehow copy them to a thumb drive and open them in whatever program later, without logging in to the account etc?

I want to delete my account, but need access to all my e-mails off.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    In Outlook it’s called the .pst file.

    In thunderbird I think it’s an mbox file.

    Not a lot of mail apps out there. I’d go with thunderbird mbox.

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      2 hours ago

      IT guy here.

      You can save individual emails as .msg or .eml files, way easier to work with if you only have a few emails to export.