# Anyone know how to backup Netscape email messages?

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**Created:** [November 6, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-how-to-backup-netscape-email-messages/379316 "2006-11-06T17:19:15Z")\
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My mother uses Netscape 7.1 as her email client. She needs to know how to export her email messages so that she can archive them in a folder or on a CD. I have looked through help and it is, well, no help. There must be a way to do this, but I haven’t found it. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.