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Getting your e-mail ready for a legal case
Free, practical guides for anyone whose dispute lives in an inbox — no signup needed. Start with the export guide for your provider, then the two articles on turning the raw mailbox into evidence your attorney can work with.
Export your mailbox
Gmail / Google Workspace
Google Takeout, step by step: export your complete history as an .mbox file — free and official. The widest-used route.
Apple Mail (Mac)
Export any mailbox in a few clicks — including the step everyone misses: finding the real mbox file inside the exported package.
Outlook / Hotmail / Microsoft 365
Outlook has no direct mbox export — the reliable free route via Thunderbird, which also works for any IMAP provider.
Work the evidence
How to use e-mails as evidence in court
The four rules: preserve before you judge, originals over screenshots, context as protection, and making the corpus findable and citable.
How to organize ten years of e-mail for your lawyer
Why forwarding hand-picked e-mails backfires, why the full dump gets expensive, and the five-step approach that keeps attorney hours on legal work.
Or let the setup assistant walk you through it
Start a case on ExhibitMail and the assistant guides you through the export for your provider conversationally, then turns the upload into a searchable, AI-scored body of evidence — with your attorney invited for free.
Start your case — freeFree to start: upload and try it on your own e-mail before paying anything. Every case encrypted at rest under its own key.