How to Import EML emails to Zimbra Desktop/Web Mail

This post is to tell you about how to move emails from various email applications. There are some facts that I would like to tell you

1 – How can we convert emails in Zimbra Desktop or Zimbra Web Mail?

2 – And which program is suitable for this task?

I have decided to post simple and short note for converting emails from various emails clients into Zimbra with a reliable and perfect wizard. Firstly you have to be clear that Zimbra supports .tgz file.

What are EML files and which application supports this formats?

EML emails stands for single emails format. There are so many applications which supports .EML files format to save their single emails like Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Windows Mail, etc.

But Zimbra is completely opposite to all these applications, Zimbra Desktop or Zimbra Web Mail saves their database into .tgz file format. Now the question is how to convert EML emails into Zimbra, because both are different formats. To perform this conversion, you definitely required a reliable and excellent tool.

So for EML emails to Zimbra Conversion task, I am recommending EML to Zimbra Converter by SoftSpire. I have already used this tool after trying so many tools and wasting of my time. But this one is quite impressive in terms of features and its conversion speed.

I have note down its features which I would like to mention in my post so that you can ensure what you want –

1 – It’s a complete tool – with this tool users will get the opportunity to convert all emails attributes while conversion process like emails header information, subject, layout formatting, images, hyperlinks, etc.

2 – Convert of attachments with emails is possible – using this program you can easily get the option to convert attached file of emails. You can convert any type of emails attached files, support all shapes and sizes of attachments.

3 – Supports EMLX files conversion to – Software also gives option to convert EMLX files from all Mac OS X emails application into Zimbra Web Clients.

4 – You can import converted file into any Zimbra Desktop version, whether it is new or older.

I would also like to mention steps of conversion so that you can easily carry out the conversion process by yourself -

1 - Download the EML to Zimbra Converter for online website of SoftSpire - http://www.softspire.com/eml-to-zimbra/

2 – Next, Save all the EML emails into one folder and add that folder to Software “Select Folder Having (*.eml) files (s)…..” option.

3 – Select the location to save the convert .tgz file

4 – After completing the conversion process, import converted file into Zimbra Desktop.

Note: to import .tgz file into Zimbra follow the step -

• Open Zimbra Web Mail or Zimbra Desktop
• Use “Import” option to import the converted .tgz file.