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teranex
December 9th, 2008, 11:43 PM
Hi,
I'm looking for a tool to backup my mail which is on an imap server (in Maildir format). What i'd like it to do is create a local archive in mailbox-format of all the mail that is on the server, so that i have a local copy of all my mail and eventually can browse them with thunderbird as it also uses the mailbox-format.
I already found OfflineIMAP, which does allmost what i need, except it can only write the local copy into Maildir... I can't seem to find a similar program that can write to mailbox-files.
thx!
anim
December 9th, 2008, 11:46 PM
http://gemal.dk/blog/2004/02/19/backup_your_imap_mail/
This is how I do it.
teranex
December 9th, 2008, 11:53 PM
http://gemal.dk/blog/2004/02/19/backup_your_imap_mail/
This is how I do it.
Cool! i'm a long-time reader of your blog! :D
That is indeed the method that i have been using for a few years now, and i'm happy with it, except there is one missing piece in it. You have to manually start the downloading of your mail. If I forget it for a few weeks (which i do regularly ;)), i have no backup of the newest mail... So if thunderbird somehow could just download new mail every hour it would be perfect! I just searched AMO again, but couldn't really find an extension that could add this functionality to TB. I have been using 'Sync On Arrival', but i'm not entirely sure if that really works...
chrisod
December 10th, 2008, 02:19 AM
What I do is forward all my mail through Gmail, filter for spam there, and then forward the good mail to an imap account on my server. That gives me Thunderbird access to my current mail and if I want to find something from 3 years ago it's a quick gmail search away.
teranex
December 10th, 2008, 11:28 AM
What I do is forward all my mail through Gmail, filter for spam there, and then forward the good mail to an imap account on my server. That gives me Thunderbird access to my current mail and if I want to find something from 3 years ago it's a quick gmail search away.
That could be a nice option indeed, but i don't like Google to have copies of all my mail :)
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