I'm using Thunderbird 0.2 on win2k (with cygwin) to access a large IMAP account. The account has a lot of mail, and is "well-structured": lots of folders, fairly deep tree. Unfortunately the account is at a university from which I recently graduated, and will soon disappear into /dev/null.
I would like to download all the mail in the account to local filespace, but preserving the structure, and to automate the process. I note that, when (in thunderbird) I drag the IMAP account's INBOX onto the Local Folders, tb recreates the folder structure, but does not copy all the mail: the contents of INBOX are copied, but not the contents of any subfolder ... and I have a lot of subfolders :-( mailutil was recommended to me, so I got it from http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=uw-imap-util/uw-imap-util-2002e-1 and noticed (*manpages*)mailutil > mailutil transfer [-debug] [-verbose] [-merge m] [-rwcopy] src dst <big snip> > ARGUMENTS > The arguments are standard c-client mailbox names. A variety of > mailbox name formats and types of mailboxes are supported by > c-client; examples of the most common forms of names are: > Name Meaning > INBOX primary incoming mail folder on the local system > archive/tx-project > mail folder named "tx-project" in "archive" > subdirectory of local filesystem home directory > {imapserver.foo.com}INBOX > primary incoming mail folder on IMAP server > system "imapserver.foo.com" > {imapserver.foo.com}archive/tx-project > mail folder named "tx-project" in "archive" > subdirectory on IMAP server system > "imapserver.foo.com" > #news.comp.mail.misc > newsgroup "comp.mail.misc" on local filesystem So I tried $ mailutil transfer -debug -verbose -merge prompt {me.mail.big.edu}INBOX /g/mail/ and got (something like :-) [Trying IP address [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]] * OK imap.big.edu Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.11 server ready [imap.big.edu Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.11 server ready] 00000000 CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=KERBEROS_V4 LISTEXT LIST-SUBSC RIBED X-NETSCAPE 00000000 OK Completed 00000001 STARTTLS 00000001 OK Begin TLS negotiation now [Certificate failure for me.mail.big.edu: self signed certificate in certificate chain: /C=US/ST=Poor/L=Broke/O=Big State University/OU=IT/CN=BSU-IT CA/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately I know nothing about certificate generation. Can anyone point me at a quick'n'dirty one-shot implementation? Or another workaround for this problem? Or a completely different alternative? I thought I might get around this by ssh-ing in to ssh.big.edu to run mailutil from there, hoping that I would not need certification "inside the firewall"; but there `which mailutil` fails. <sigh/> I have also posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], but based on past experience and the current budgetary problems, I'm not holding my breath <sigh x 2/> If this is a FAQ, or the wrong forum for this question, please guide me in the right direction. Otherwise, your help is appreciated. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html ------------------------------------------------------------------
