# Email backup tools privacy ratings

Tools that back up, migrate or sync mailboxes over IMAP.

| Name | Grade | Jurisdiction | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Forward Email Backups](https://privacyratings.com/email-backup/forward-email-backups/) | B (85/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Built-in mailbox backup and export for Forward Email accounts. Mailboxes are backed up as encrypted SQLite files, optionally to the user's own S3-compatible storage, and can be downloaded as encrypted SQLite or password-protected EML or MBOX archives with contacts and calendars. |
| [getmail6](https://privacyratings.com/email-backup/getmail6/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Command-line mail retriever that downloads mail from POP3 and IMAP accounts into local Maildir or mbox files, or passes it to a delivery program. It is the Python 3 fork of getmail. |
| [Got Your Back](https://privacyratings.com/email-backup/got-your-back/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Command-line tool that backs up and restores Gmail and Google Workspace mailboxes through the Gmail API, saving messages as local files with an index. |
| [imap-backup](https://privacyratings.com/email-backup/imap-backup/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Command-line Ruby tool that backs up IMAP accounts to local files, with incremental updates, and can restore or migrate the backups to another IMAP server. |
| [ImportExportTools NG](https://privacyratings.com/email-backup/importexporttools-ng/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Thunderbird add-on that exports and imports messages and folders as EML, MBOX, HTML, PDF, plain text or CSV, and can back up the Thunderbird profile. |
| [isync](https://privacyratings.com/email-backup/isync/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Command-line tool, run as mbsync, that synchronizes IMAP mailboxes with local Maildir folders in both directions, including deletions and flag changes. |
| [OfflineIMAP](https://privacyratings.com/email-backup/offlineimap/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Command-line tool that synchronizes IMAP mailboxes with local Maildir folders in both directions, so mail can be read offline and kept as a local copy. |
| [imapsync](https://privacyratings.com/email-backup/imapsync/) | D (40/100) | Unknown | Command-line tool that copies or migrates mail between two IMAP accounts, often used for mailbox migrations and incremental backups to another IMAP server. |
| [MailStore Home](https://privacyratings.com/email-backup/mailstore-home/) | F (10/100) | Germany (Fourteen Eyes) | Free Windows program for private use that archives mail from IMAP and POP3 accounts, Gmail, Outlook.com, Outlook, Thunderbird and PST or EML files into one searchable local archive, and can restore messages. |
| [Google Takeout](https://privacyratings.com/email-backup/google-takeout/) | F (0/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Google's data export service for Google accounts. It exports Gmail as an MBOX file, along with data from other Google products, as a download or to a cloud storage service, once or on a schedule. |

## Criteria

- **Open source** (weight 3): Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
- **No trackers or telemetry** (weight 3): Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
- **No ads or data sales** (weight 2): Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
- **Independent audit** (weight 2): Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?

Source: https://privacyratings.com/email-backup/