{"id":1010,"date":"2021-12-01T09:11:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T09:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2021\/12\/01\/5778099-how-to-import-emails-to-hostinger-email-via-webmail\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:04:44","slug":"5778099-how-to-import-emails-to-hostinger-email-via-webmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5778099-how-to-import-emails-to-hostinger-email-via-webmail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Import Emails to Hostinger Email via Webmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If you use <b>Hostinger Email<\/b> and have a backup of your emails in <b>EML<\/b>, <b>MIME, <\/b>or <b>Mbox <\/b>format, you can easily import them via webmail. If you have several files, you can pack them into a <b>.ZIP<\/b> archive.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">First, access the <b><a href=\"\/support\/1583218-how-can-i-access-my-webmail\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">webmail of Hostinger Email<\/a><\/b>.<b> <\/b>Then, click on <b>More<\/b>,<b> <\/b>and select<b> Import messages<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/0074a0b6-fb58-4a7a-aab5-5df6f868bb36.jpg\" alt=\"The More option on webmail showing to select Import in order to import email messages\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Click on <b>Browse<\/b> to select your email backup file, and then click on <b>Import<\/b> to start the process:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/a16d3c90-c9d1-4271-8774-6f06e405ca36.jpg\" alt=\"The Import messages window showing the option to select the file to import and click on the Import button\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Depending on the size of your file, it may take some time to complete the process. After the import is completed, a notification will appear:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/cbe0252b-46bc-4748-93ae-3d880a0c6c6d.jpg\" alt=\"An example of notification for successful import, indicating the number of messages imported\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTES<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The maximum allowed file size is <b>256 MB<\/b>; if your file is bigger,<b> <\/b>you can <b><a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Edit_large_mbox_files#Split_a_mbox_file_into_two_parts\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">split it<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Alternatively, you can migrate emails to Hostinger Email with the help of the <b><a href=\"\/support\/5866288-how-to-migrate-emails-to-hostinger\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Email Import<\/a><\/b> tool<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Importing your email messages to Hostinger Email via webmail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hostinger-email-web-app-webmail"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5778099-how-to-import-emails-to-hostinger-email-via-webmail\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5778099-como-importar-emails-usando-hostinger-webmail\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5778099-comment-importer-des-emails-en-utilisant-le-webmail-de-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5778099-cara-impor-email-ke-hostinger-dengan-webmail\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5778099-como-importar-e-mails-para-hostinger-usando-o-webmail\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/5778099------hostinger-\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4087,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/4087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}