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I don't discouraging to write your own app to do that, but there is imapsync that can sync two IMAP servers (one|two ways), so basically if you would setup simple local IMAP server, you can sync mail one way to local IMAP using imapsync and connect to it anytime you want using any email client with convenience of any email client that will sort, search...
If you still want to do it on your own, there is Go simple mail server - maddy where you can borrow some code or simply use it for the purpose as a IMAP server (I mentioned above, but dovecot as IMAP probably would be the best)
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