EmailAttic gathers decades of email — old accounts, Google Takeout downloads, forgotten Outlook backups — removes every duplicate, and turns it all into one organized archive your family can actually read.Forever.
A parent's account, twenty years of correspondence, the emails from when the kids were small. EmailAttic turns it into a browsable family archive — sorted by person, readable without any special software, safe to hand down. No technical terms, no cloud account, no subscription.
PST files from every computer you've ever owned. Backups of backups on an old NAS. Overlapping exports you're afraid to delete. EmailAttic reads them all, keeps every unique message, discards the duplicates — and gives you a report proving nothing was lost, so you can finally clear the drawer.
Folders, drives, Takeout zips, old backup files — EmailAttic scans them all and shows you what it found before touching anything. Your originals are never modified.
EmailAttic detects whose mailbox each file is and keeps every unique message once — sent and received together, attachments intact — even when the same mailbox was backed up a dozen times. Then it shows you every mailbox it found and lets you group them into categories you name — Business, Personal, Family — each sent to its own folder or even its own drive. It remembers your choices for next time.
Clean folder structures sorted by person, in an open format that's still readable in thirty years — plus a report of exactly what came from where. Find more old email later? Point EmailAttic at the same archive again and it adds only what's new, skipping everything already there.
736,312 messages.
EmailAttic began as a personal rescue mission: one family's email scattered across more than two hundred backup files on old drives and a home server. Merged and de-duplicated, the real archive was about half that — every message kept once, organized by person, nothing lost, with the receipts to prove it.
EmailAttic is that toolchain, rebuilt so anyone can do it in an afternoon.
— Michael, founder
EmailAttic is a free download and fully functional — the free trial archives up to 100 messages, so you can try it on your own email. A license key from any purchase below removes the limit for good.
Signed by M.R.H. Consultants Inc. Runs entirely on your computer — nothing is uploaded, ever. RAR extraction is Windows-only for now; zip, tar.gz and 7z archives open on every platform.
No subscription, ever. Updates to the version you buy are free. Bundle EmailAttic with the rest of the Attic family and save.
Just this app.
All five apps — email, photos, docs, chats, contacts.
Any three apps you pick.
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No. EmailAttic is a desktop app. Your mail never leaves your computer — there's no account, no cloud, and we couldn't read your email if we wanted to.
It tells you. Every run ends with a plain-English report: what was read, what was kept, what was a duplicate, and any file it couldn't open — so you never wonder whether something slipped through.
Yes. The archive is ordinary files in ordinary folders, in the standard format email has used since the beginning. It works even if EmailAttic is long gone.
No. Pay once, own it — updates to the version you buy are free. If a major new version ever ships, upgrading is optional, discounted for owners, and your copy keeps working either way. Your family archive shouldn't have a monthly fee.
Download the free trial, test it on your own email backups, and unlock it with a license key when you're ready.
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