Back up your email to Onedrive

When an Outlook app is installed on your computer, you can use it to move email, contacts, and calendar items from one email account to another.

For example, let's say your inbox is almost full, you can export old items by creating a .pst file on onedrive. This Outlook Data File contains your messages and other Outlook items and is saved on your onedrive.

If you want to back up the message folders to Onedrive, you can automatically move or delete older items with AutoArchive or export the items to a .pst file that you can restore later as needed and use by importing.

Step 1: Select File > Open & Export > Import/Export.

Step 2: Select Export to a file, and then select Next.

Step 3: Select Outlook Data File (.pst), and select Next.

Step 4: Select the mail folder you want to back up and select Next.

Step 5: Choose a location on Onedrive and name for your backup file, and then select Finish.

Step 6: If you want to ensure no one has access to your files, enter and confirm a password, and then select OK.

Result: The messages that you keep in a .pst file are no different from other messages. You can forward, reply, or search through the stored messages as you do with other messages.