How to Download All Emails from Lotus Notes – Here’s the Solution

If you are looking for a way to download emails from IBM Lotus Notes, then you are in the right place. Here in this blog, we are going to discuss the two best techniques for IBM Lotus notes free download without any hassle.

Well, we know that Lotus Notes is an enterprise-level email client, and there are huge numbers of organizations around the globe using this email client to fulfill all their email needs. Basically, it is a bit complicated email client and it saves all its data in NSF file format. Which is only accessible in Lotus Notes. So, if you want to open an NSF file to any other email application. You have to download all the emails in different file formats.

But before starting the procedure to download all emails from Lotus Notes let’s find the reasons why users want to download all the emails.

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Need to Download Emails from HCL Notes

As we said above Lotus Notes is a bit complicated email client. Hence, many users switch their email clients. So if they want all their mail-in new email client, then they need to download all the emails from Lotus Notes.

• It saves all its data in NSF file format and it is only accessible in Lotus Notes. So in the case you want to open Lotus emails in other emails client, then you have to download all the emails.
• Many users want to create a backup of their emails, hence he/she needs to download all the emails from Lotus Notes.
• Sometimes users want to just free up space from the mailbox. So, they want to download the emails from Lotus Notes to a local drive.
• Now after knowing the reason let’s move toward the procedure to complete the same.

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How to Download Emails from IBM Lotus Notes Manually?

Yes, you can easily download emails from Lotus Notes and here in this section, we are going to discuss the freeway to save all emails from lotus notes in EML file format. And to do this just follow the below steps:

There are two methods to download email from lotus notes manually and here we have discussed both of them.

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Method 1: Download IBM Lotus Notes Email One-by-One

• Firstly open Lotus Notes on your system
• Open the email that you wish to download from IBM Lotus Notes
• Click on the File option from the menu bar
• Choose Save As option from the listed menu
• Select the desired destination location to save the IBM Notes emails as EML

Method 2: Download Emails from Lotus Notes Using Drag and Drop Option

• First, click on the File button
• After that select the Preferences option
• Now, under the Preferences window choose the Basic Notes Client Configuration option
• Navigate to the Additional options section
• Now from Additional Options, choose Drag and drop save as .eml file option
• Click on the OK button to save the changes
• After settings are saved you can simply drag and drop

Limitations of the Manual Method

Well the above, manual method is free but the methods come with some limitations and here in this section we are going to mention them:

• The first, limitation of the manual method is that you can only download one email at a single time bulk downloading is not possible.
• The manual method only downloads emails in one file format and that is EML.
• The drag and drop method is only working with Lotus Notes 8.5 and the above. So, if you are using an older version then you are not able to drag and drop the emails

Best Way to Download Emails from IBM Lotus Notes

Well, as we see, the above manual method has some limitations and also is very time-consuming. So to make the task simple and easy here in this blog we are going to introduce a tool that can easily download all your emails from Lotus Notes.

NSF to PST Converter Tool is the best and most searched tool on the internet. This tool offers three file formats while downloading Lotus Notes such as EML, MSG, and MBOX. So, you can choose the file extensions as per your requirement. The tool has an amazing feature to add files from Lotus Notes you can directly add the NSF file from the desired location. Also, you can add NSF files from Domino Server.

Also Read: Migrate Lotus Notes to Exchange

After knowing the tool let’s see how the tool works:

Download Emails from IBM Lotus Notes using the Tool

1. First, you have to download the tool on your machine

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• Now, click on the Select NSF File radio button and then choose Add Files or Add Folder 
• You can also add files directly from the Domino Server just enter the valid IP Address and password
• Choose the export option such as PDF, vCard, ICS, and so on.
• After this choose the Advance Conversion Option as per your requirement
• Select the destination location to save the resultant file
• At last click on the Export button to download emails from IBM Lotus Notes

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Conclusion

Well, it’s time to wrap up things, now if you are struggling while downloading emails from Lotus Notes, then here in the write-up we have discussed all the possible ways to download emails from IBM Lotus Notes. But if you have a huge number of emails to download, then you can try the automated tool which is discussed above in the blog.