Ask HN: What is your ideal email backup solution?

• imap-backup

  17 1,298 9.6 Ruby

  Backup and Migrate IMAP Email Accounts

I’ve been using the imap-backup container for a couple of years, it has been rock solid. I test a full restore quarterly.

https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup

• ImapSync

  134 3,185 2.9 Perl

  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

  

Since nobody mentioned it, imapsync[1] is a gorgeous command line utility that does one thing and does it well: copy an IMAP account from server A to server B, by sync only, so you can stop / disconnect at any time and continue where the copy left.

We use it to transfer around email hosting, but it's also suitable for backups due its sync only mechanism.

[1] https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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