Dear Support,

I am using outlook 2013 as an IMAP account.I want to know in which format that i have to save the IMAP email account.

I also want to transfer the IMAP email backup file to another new pc.

Please let me know how to do this and required your support on this at the earliest.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Pradeep.R

As IMAP stores it email at server-level, you don't need to transfer anything. Simply reconfigure the IMAP account on your other computer and Outlook will cache the emails from the server again. The cache (ost-file) can't be transferred to another computer.

Be careful about any data that you have stored in "This computer only" folders though.
See: Dont risk losing your Contacts and Calendar when using IMAP in Outlook 2013

I support Roady, you don't need to worry about the format, just configure IMAP account and it will sync data automatically.

Hi,

Robert is right, but I noticed you mentioned it was an email backup file, is it a .pst file?

If you have archived some emails from the IMAP account to local, it is a .pst file that can be imported or opened on other Outlook client.

I hope our suggestions are helpful to you.

Regards,

Melon Chen
TechNet Community Su

Dear Robert,

I have re-configured my email account in laptop and everything has got synchronized.I have received all the emails from the Inbox,sent mails till now.

But i am not able to get any of the email id contacts.

Email id contacts are missing.

Please let me know how to get all the email contacts in IMAP.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Pradeep.R

Hi,

Based on my knowledge, Contacts synchronization is not supported by IMAP, not a limitation of Outlook but IMAP itself.

Regards,

Melon Chen
TechNet Community Su