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I am leaving my position on a board and need to pass many years of emails to my successor..I use on the fly encryption with theBat!.
I've searched previous posts and see a limitation of being only able to export folder by folder.

I'd be appreciative of suggestions and things that might trip me up with this task.
Will I be able to pass on a .tbk file containing the messages that would be usable by someone else?
Does the act of exporting remove the message encryption?

thanks for your time.  
 
 
 
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In each account, I'd run a Search (F7) that finds all messages, for instance by looking for senders that contain '@'.

On the search results dialog, you can sel ect 'Virtual folder' to create a new virtual folder that contains all the found messages.
Fr om there, you can export them (note that you would lose the in-account folder structure when you take this approach). You can delete the virtual folder afterwards. This won't affect the original messages.

I would not present a successor with files that only The Bat can load. I'd export to Unix MBox format, if they can work with that, or with the more widely supported .EML format, which however has the disadvantage of creating a separate file for each message.
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Doug Fitzpatrick wrote:
I'd be appreciative of suggestions and things that might trip me up with this task.Will I be able to pass on a .tbk file containing the messages that would be usable by someone else? Does the act of exporting remove the message encryption?
I've tested how exporting messages as a backup (*.tbk file) works, and I think this is the best solution in your situation. I also use on-the-fly encryption, and in this case, the backup is not password-protected unless you explicitly specify it. You should sel ect a full backup of all accounts, including address books and custom settings. When restoring messages from a tbk file on another computer, you can select accounts, folders, settings, etc.

Using a backup offers many more possibilities and is much simpler than using virtual folders with filters.
Edited: Zygmunt Wereszczyński - 16 April 2026 11:48:29
 
 
 
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Zygmunt Wereszczyński wrote:
Using a backup offers many more possibilities and is much simpler than using virtual folders with filters.

Where does it say that his successor will be using The Bat? If that were the case, he could just turn his entire Mail folder over.
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Daniel van Rooijen wrote:
Where does it say that his successor will be using The Bat?

You are right, I didn't pay attention to this fact. In any case, using the Unix mailbox format will be the best solution.
 
 
 
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