Imap accounts backup

vitobotta

I would like to do an incremental backup of my Zoho imap accounts. Any tool you would recommend that does incremental backups and allows for restores too?

Thanks

ExpertVM

Imapsync ?

jmgcaguicla

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/180002/email-migration-tool-preferably-foss/p1
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/180299/what-is-the-best-way-of-backing-up-my-mailbox
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/180169/email-migration-tools

BBTN

getmail ?

vitobotta

imapsync seems to be for migrating from one server to another, not local disk backups. getmail may be it, will check it out. Thanks!

ericls

There's a ruby based script that runs pretty well.

vitobotta

@ericls said:
There's a ruby based script that runs pretty well.

If you mean https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup I tried it. It's nice but I'd prefer the backup to be a regular Maildir with emails accessible and searchable as files.

I am testing https://www.offlineimap.org/ now. Seems to work well.

ericls

@vitobotta said:

@ericls said:
There's a ruby based script that runs pretty well.

If you mean https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup I tried it. It's nice but I'd prefer the backup to be a regular Maildir with emails accessible and searchable as files.

I am testing https://www.offlineimap.org/ now. Seems to work well.

ah, yes, that's it. I think it does provide some utilities to let you search the emails, but not 100% sure and it's probably not in a plain text format.

cadddr

mbsync? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/isync , if you are on linux/bsd. You can pair it with mu(https://github.com/djcb/mu/) and get very good search(backed by xapian) locally as well.