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2011/1/20 Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@×××××××××.com> |
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> Hi guys, |
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> I know this isnt really a gentoo question but you always seem to come with |
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> an amazing |
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> answer in the end ;) |
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> I've got a friend who uses dreamhost for mail, and he's trying to move away |
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> from it to |
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> something a little more customisable. |
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> The problem is that he has around 2.5Gb of mail in various IMAP folders on |
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> this |
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> server. I'm trying to find some way of downloading all this mail but |
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> keeping in its |
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> current folder structure. |
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> I was hoping fetchmail could do it but it doesn't appear (after a quick |
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> read) to |
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> support arbitrary folders. I am almost thinking of contacting dreamhost |
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> support and |
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> asking if they can tar up the maildirs and give me access to them via FTP |
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> or |
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> something. |
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> I'm hoping someone here has an idea for something that will let me make a |
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> copy of all |
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> his mail, in the current folder structure and replicate it onto another |
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> machine. |
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> Grateful for any help, |
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> Matt Harrison |
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I use OfflineIMAP to backup my gmail account using IMAP. |
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https://github.com/nicolas33/offlineimap |
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It's easy to configure and to use. |
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Folders are preserved as it keeps mail in maildir structure. |
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Mickaël Bucas |