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 (by imapsync)
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] (by jay0lee)
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| ImapSync | got-your-back | |
|---|---|---|
| 134 | 55 | |
| 3,185 | 1,770 | |
| 2.5% | - | |
| 2.9 | 9.2 | |
| 2 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Perl | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
ImapSync
Posts with mentions or reviews of ImapSync.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-30.
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Migrate mailbox from OVH to Microsoft
You see this https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ ? It's only for mails but it's a great solution.
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Transferring email account to new server question: Can I just copy via Cpanel/File Manager the entire folder "mail/domain/accountname" to preserve all the sub-folders the client has created?
I've had to do large email migrations before and honestly, imapsync is the way to go - https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync
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Helping my parents use my NAS to store their old emails and share across all of their devices?
Do your parents have a domain, or are they just using the provider's domain? I've set up my 1522+ to backup our mail accounts using MailPlus on the Synology, and IMAPSYC running on my lab server. But it's backup only, not archiving. That technology could be used to get to your desired state, but there's some work involved to make a secure connection from the internet to your Synology possible, sync/archive the mail, configure you parent's devices to find your device, etc.
- Imapsync
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Migrating email accounts from Fasthosts to internal self-hosted server?
Check out imapsync (https://imapsync.lamiral.info/) - I am using it since years and migrated tousands of mailboxes without any problems.
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Is there a mail server that can combine/merge multiple IMAP accounts into one?
Check https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync
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Zimbra migration to M365
I would use https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ for email and sure there is another tool for contacts and calenders.
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Seeking Advice on Backing Up Emails from External Email Providers - Not Hosting
There are two solutions for this 1. Using a tool called imap-sync to sync all your emails (it has a great incremental sync). You can run it periodically via cron 2. Using the same or similar tool and export to a database.
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Email Archive, Indexing
If you want to sync from one IMAP server directly to another, there's also the very popular imapsync: https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync
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I need help with transferring/migrating email data from old hosting service to new one
Have a look at imapsync. Source: former web hosting sysadmin. Used this many times to move email.
got-your-back
Posts with mentions or reviews of got-your-back.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-19.
- Help Please! Need to Pull specific Emails from one Account to Another
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Migrating Emails under Label to New Account
i THINK a mail client can do that or maybe this https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/wiki
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Importing large number of emails from mbox to gmail
https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/wiki - free Gmail backup/restore utility, command-line only
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Someone blogged a solution for a post Google Apps Legacy World
https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back or email client with IMAP (drag drop your stuff)
- Death of Legacy: Isn’t the pOP3 Method the Easiest?
- G Suite legacy free edition accounts being suspended on July 1, 2022
- Google discontinuing G Suite Legacy Free - must change to Workspace by July 1, 2022
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Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
There's also a fantastic tool by Jay Lee that will do it in an automated fashion
https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back
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Importing Google Takeout Mbox back into Google Workspace
If you need to import an MBOX go for Got Your Back ( https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back ).
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IMAP-backup: Backup Gmail (or other IMAP) accounts to disk
I suggest using https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back for gmail.
It works better because it can copy rules, labels, stars, etc.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ImapSync and got-your-back you can also consider the following projects:
docker-mbsync - A Docker container which runs the mbsync tool automatically to synchronize your email
gmvault - gmail backup software
docker-mailserver - Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.
GAM - command line management for Google Workspace [Moved to: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM]
imap-backup - Backup and Migrate IMAP Email Accounts
Mail-in-a-Box - Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.
offlineimap - Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python2) [LEGACY: move to offlineimap3]
GAM - command line management for Google Workspace
N1 - :love_letter: An extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web. Forks welcome!
fdupes - FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.