This isn't a specifically Ubuntu question except that's where I want the solution to run. I've got a lot of history in email servers in the cloud (i.e. someone else's computer). I'm looking for some way to make a local backup of all that data, preferably one I could easily access/search.
There are two products I know of that do exactly what I want but they're both Windows only MailStore and MailShelf.
I tried to get Thunderbird to do what I wanted, but failed. Pop is no good since it doesn't see folders, and folders are important. Using Thunderbird with IMAP should theoretically be able to download everything, but it doesn't actually do it. Even if it did, there's no way for me to be sure it did, and finally the cloud server would still be controlling so if something was deleted in the cloud TB would delete it locally as well.
There do seem to be a number of linux console tools that do the first half of what I want (imapsync, imap-backup, more?) but I'm not sure how I'd access/search the mail after the messages were down. There arealso enterprise products (Piler, MailArchiva) which are probably overkill, and would be a hassle to setup anyway.
Is anyone out there willing to share the solution they have for this problem?
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