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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

  • Personally I sync the emails in my Gmail account to my server at Hetzner using imapsync [1] every once in a while. The data on that server is backed up off-site at rsync.net using Borg. I'm intentionally not using Hetzner's storage boxes, because I want my backup to be entirely independent, e.g. if my Hetzner customer account is closed down for whatever reason.

    [1] https://imapsync.lamiral.info/

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