Backing up mails with MailPlus Server (MPS)

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  • 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

  • I would consider using Mail Server (not plus) instead. Set up an account for each of the users, then use IMAPSYNC (https://imapsync.lamiral.info/) to backup mail from the original server to the Synology.

  • offlineimap

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

  • 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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