offlineimap
Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python2) [LEGACY: move to offlineimap3] (by OfflineIMAP)
imapbackup
A Python script for incremental backups of IMAP mailboxes (by rcarmo)
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| offlineimap | imapbackup | |
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| 19 | 6 | |
| 1,776 | 287 | |
| 0.1% | - | |
| 3.4 | 0.0 | |
| 11 months ago | 18 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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offlineimap
Posts with mentions or reviews of offlineimap.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-08.
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Seeking Advice on Backing Up Emails from External Email Providers - Not Hosting
There are also isync and OfflineIMAP which sync email locally.
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Mail migration from Protonmail
I'd consider using the Bridge + offlineimap (or a similar tool). That can connect via IMAP to both the Bridge IMAP and your destination IMAP service and copy all mails automatically that way.
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Store proton mail locally
As u/alex_herrero says, Proton Mail Bridge is very much useful. I'm using this myself together with offlineimap to have a local backup. I also use the Bridge with Thunderbird too, which also works quite well (especially the v3 beta).
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Backing up mails with MailPlus Server (MPS)
For the sync / import functionality the MSP uses offlineimap, which is another counterpart to IMAPSYNC. Changing the import tool will not bring up the solution to the main problem, that I am not able to reset the imported stuff back to zero in order to test the different scenarios of the main use case.
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What an excellent idea!
Don't risk relying on someone else's hardware or service, use something like Offlineimap or Mbsync to sync your emails to your computer then automate multiple backups.
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Backup external mails
Many people use OfflineIMAP.
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recommendations for archiving gmail locally for search?
I've used offlineimap in the past: http://www.offlineimap.org/
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How are you getting your IMAP email for use with mu4e or the like these days?
I'm looking into replacing Thunderbird with mu4e (for the first time, despite being an Emacs guy for 15 years) and I got unexpectedly stuck at step 1, dowloading my email. offlineimap is broken on newer Pythons, getmail doesn't support Python 3 at all, and fetchmail is infamously inscrutable. It all seems a bit ridiculous, but I guess it speaks to how webmail has come to dominate proper email clients. Any recommendations?
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Mutt 2.2.0
Neither a mutt, nor an offlineimap user, but I believe those two are often used in combination: http://www.offlineimap.org/
imapbackup
Posts with mentions or reviews of imapbackup.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-20.
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How do you backup your IMAP folders?
In terms of backup you could do incremental backups, example here in python - not tested by me personally but seems good.
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Self hosted mail with searchable attachments content?
If you want it totally DIY https://github.com/rcarmo/imapbackup and then any flat text search.
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Can I zip a folder of protonmail emails and move it to the drive?
Check this out, you can use it with bridge https://github.com/rcarmo/imapbackup
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How do you guys backup your imap servers?
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
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Selfhosted Email Archive
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing offlineimap and imapbackup 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
docker-imap-devel - Dockerized SMTP/IMAP server for development
offlineimap3 - Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python3)
imap-backup - Backup and Migrate IMAP Email Accounts
fdm - fdm source code
imapfw - imapfw (IMAP/mail framework)
mutt-office365 - A mutt configuration file ready for Office 365
imapdown
imapbox - Dump imap inbox to a local folder in a regular backupable format: html, json and attachements
imap_backup - Multi-account IMAP backup with multiprocessing.
neomutt - ✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat
postsack - Visually cluster your emails by sender, domain, and more to identify waste