imap-backup VS offlineimap

Compare imap-backup vs offlineimap and see what are their differences.

imap-backup

Backup and Migrate IMAP Email Accounts (by joeyates)

offlineimap

Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python2) [LEGACY: move to offlineimap3] (by OfflineIMAP)
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imap-backup offlineimap
17 19
1,283 1,777
- 0.3%
9.6 3.4
about 1 month ago 10 months ago
Ruby Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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imap-backup

Posts with mentions or reviews of imap-backup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

offlineimap

Posts with mentions or reviews of offlineimap. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing imap-backup and offlineimap you can also consider the following projects:

ImapSync - Imapsync is an IMAP transfers tool. The purpose of imapsync is to migrate IMAP accounts or to backup IMAP accounts. IMAP is one of the three current standard protocols to access mailboxes, the two others are POP3 and HTTP with webmails, webmails are often tied to an IMAP server. Upstream website is

offlineimap3 - Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python3)

fdm - fdm source code

mutt-office365 - A mutt configuration file ready for Office 365

Oxidized - Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!

imapbox - Dump imap inbox to a local folder in a regular backupable format: html, json and attachements

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

neomutt - ✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat

imapfw - imapfw (IMAP/mail framework)

imapbackup - A Python script for incremental backups of IMAP mailboxes

lieer - Fast email-fetching and sending and two-way tag synchronization between notmuch and GMail