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)
jmap
JSON Meta Application Protocol Specification (JMAP) (by jmapio)
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| ImapSync | jmap | |
|---|---|---|
| 134 | 34 | |
| 3,181 | 1,232 | |
| 2.4% | 0.7% | |
| 2.9 | 8.7 | |
| about 1 month ago | 12 days ago | |
| Perl | Makefile | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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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.
jmap
Posts with mentions or reviews of jmap.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
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Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui
Only Stalwart supports JMAP, which imo is the future of mail/calendar/contacts client-server communication.
https://jmap.io/
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Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS
It's a reworked email protocol, created by fastmail. Basically email over json (send + receive) instead of imap+smtp.
https://jmap.io/
- FLaNK Stack 5-June-2023
- JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard
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Migrating to fastmail
Fastmail support IMAP and JMAP (RFC8620 see https://jmap.io/)
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Is there API for IMAP ?
Using jmap-perl to expose a JMAP interface for the IMAP server might be a solution. If you're unfamiliar with it, JMAP is like IMAP, but is based on HTTPS and JSON, making it easier to interface with.
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The Emacs Curse: When Everything Else Just Feels Inferior 😱🧙♂️
(If you want to "petition the powers that be", it would be convenient if Gmail and MS Exchange would support jmap :) )
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ImapSync and jmap you can also consider the following projects:
docker-mbsync - A Docker container which runs the mbsync tool automatically to synchronize your email
docker-mailserver - Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.
mail-server - Secure & Modern All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, SMTP)
imap-backup - Backup and Migrate IMAP Email Accounts
AppFlowy - AppFlowy is an open-source alternative to Notion. You are in charge of your data and customizations. Built with Flutter and Rust.
gmvault - gmail backup software
john-carmack-plan-archive - Collection of John Carmack’s .plan files
offlineimap - Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python2) [LEGACY: move to offlineimap3]
obsidian-outliner - Work with your lists like in Workflowy or RoamResearch
N1 - :love_letter: An extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web. Forks welcome!
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