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imapbackup		fts-xapian
	Project
6	Mentions	1
286	Stars	87
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	9.3
25 days ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
Python	Language	C++
MIT License	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

imapbackup

Posts with mentions or reviews of imapbackup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-20.

How do you backup your IMAP folders?
1 project | /r/it | 14 Jun 2023

In terms of backup you could do incremental backups, example here in python - not tested by me personally but seems good.
Self hosted mail with searchable attachments content?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 20 Feb 2023

If you want it totally DIY https://github.com/rcarmo/imapbackup and then any flat text search.
Can I zip a folder of protonmail emails and move it to the drive?
1 project | /r/ProtonMail | 21 Jul 2022

Check this out, you can use it with bridge https://github.com/rcarmo/imapbackup
How do you guys backup your imap servers?
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 Jul 2022

If you have access to the server you could make backups on that end (that is what we where doing) if you dont have access to the server you would need to login to each mailbox to create the backup i suppose. Dont know which tools are good for that but i found this one it might help: https://github.com/rcarmo/imapbackup
Selfhosted Email Archive
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 14 May 2022

There are loads of imap backup options from a quick search, such as https://github.com/rcarmo/imapbackup
IMAP-backup: Backup Gmail (or other IMAP) accounts to disk
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2022

fts-xapian

Posts with mentions or reviews of fts-xapian. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-14.

Selfhosted Email Archive
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 14 May 2022

Another one, lightweight and under active development. No Java / JVM like Solr. :) https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian

What are some alternatives?

When comparing imapbackup and fts-xapian you can also consider the following projects:

docker-imap-devel - Dockerized SMTP/IMAP server for development

iRedMail - Full-featured, open source mail server solution for mainstream Linux/BSD distributions.

offlineimap - Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python2) [LEGACY: move to offlineimap3]

imap-backup - Backup and Migrate IMAP Email Accounts

imapfw - imapfw (IMAP/mail framework)

imapdown

postsack - Visually cluster your emails by sender, domain, and more to identify waste

imap_backup - Multi-account IMAP backup with multiprocessing.

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

offlineimap3 - Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python3)

got-your-back - Got Your Back (GYB) is a command line tool for backing up your Gmail messages to your computer using Gmail's API over HTTPS. [Moved to: https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back]