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On Thursday 20 January 2011 15:23:08 Matt Harrison wrote: |
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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 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 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 server. I'm trying to find some way of downloading all this mail but |
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> keeping in its 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 support arbitrary folders. I am almost thinking of contacting |
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> dreamhost support and asking if they can tar up the maildirs and give me |
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> access to them via FTP or 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 his mail, in the current folder structure and replicate it |
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> onto another machine. |
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> Grateful for any help, |
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> Matt Harrison |
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Hi Matt, |
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I generally use either of the following two options: |
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- Use a Mail-client (thunderbird, kmail,....) to copy them across (copy folder |
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should work) |
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- Use imapsync (net-mail/imapsync) to copy the email from one IMAP-server to |
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another. |
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Joost |
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