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title: How to Enable Email Archiving in cPanel
description: "**In short:** Email archiving in cPanel keeps copies of your **incoming**, **outgoing** and **mailing list** messages for a period you choose. Open **cPanel → Email → Archive**, select the message types and the retention period, and it applies to all…"
url: "https://www.hyyat.com/en/knowledgebase/email-archiving-cpanel/"
updated: "2026-10-21"
category: Website control panel ( cpanel )
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# How to Enable Email Archiving in cPanel

**In short:** Email archiving in cPanel keeps copies of your **incoming**, **outgoing** and **mailing list** messages for a period you choose. Open **cPanel → Email → Archive**, select the message types and the retention period, and it applies to all email accounts on the domain. **Need professional email for your company?** [Hyyat Host business hosting](https://www.hyyat.com/%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b6%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b4%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a7%d8%aa/) gives you your website plus unlimited email accounts on your domain (such as info@company.com) from $77/year, with a higher sending limit, free migration of your current email and support that replies within 24 hours. [Compare hosting types](https://www.hyyat.com/%d8%a7%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b6%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a8%d9%83/).

Archived messages are stored in the mail folder of your account. Each day, a new folder is created by type and date (**YYYY-MM-DD**) containing all messages from that day.

## Enable and configure email archiving

1. Log in to cPanel.
2. Click **Archive** in the Email section.
   ![أرشفة البريد اﻹلكتروني Email Archive](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Archive-email1.png)
3. Select the types of messages to archive.
4. Choose how long to keep them: forever or a specific period.
5. Wait a few seconds for archiving to be enabled for all domains on the hosting account.
   ![أرشفة البريد اﻹلكتروني Email Archive](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Archive-email2.png)

## Download the archive

1. Click **Download Archive**.
   ![أرشفة البريد اﻹلكتروني Email Archive](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Archive-email3.png)
2. Choose the folder to download: all archives, incoming or outgoing. A .zip file with the archived messages is downloaded to your computer.
   ![أرشفة البريد اﻹلكتروني Email Archive](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Archive-email4.png)

## View archived messages

1. Click **Access Webmail** to view the archive in webmail.
   ![أرشفة البريد اﻹلكتروني Email Archive](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Archive-email5.png)
2. Choose the webmail app you want to use.
3. Under the **Archive** folder you will find a subfolder for each type and date.

**In Roundcube:** open **Settings**, tick the subfolders you want to show, then refresh the page.

![أرشفة البريد اﻹلكتروني Email Archive](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Archive-email6.png)

**In Horde:** click **Archive** to view all messages.

![أرشفة البريد اﻹلكتروني Email Archive](https://www.hyyat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Archive-email6-1.png)

## Notes

- Archiving is enabled for all email accounts on the domain, not for a single account.
- Archived messages can only be viewed through webmail.
- You can forward a copy of all archived messages to another email address from the web interface.
- The archive uses disk space from your hosting plan; the longer the retention period, the more space it needs.
- Messages received before you enabled archiving are not archived.

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