[geeks] IMAP Backup?

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Sat Apr 29 06:15:54 CDT 2006


For Unix, you can just fetchmail or getmail (or any of a few others)
to download it all to a local mail file.

  Scott.


On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 08:52:34PM -0700, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> My undergraduate career is ending soon and with that
> my computing package... are there any good tools to do
> a wholesale backup/mirror of my IMAP account? Ideally,
> I would just give the program my username/pass/server
> and it would download everything it finds there,
> writes out each email as a plain text and/or HTML
> file, as well as downloading attachments. Win or Unix.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> Mike
> 
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