-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shawn wrote: > I haven't looked into email servers for a while so I may be wrong on > this... > > Squirrel is a front end to the mail system. The actual mail is either > stored as POP3 or IMAP. Seeing as Squirrel is just a front end, this > means the mail resides on the servers. So, in theory, if you set up the > same system on your end you can just rsync the pertinent directories - > via FTP, SSH, or whatever. Just make sure you maintain or reset the > file permissions properly. > > Another alternative is to us a mail client to do the backup. There is a > plugin for ThunderBird for this exact purpose - though I don't recall > the name off hand. Actually there are more than one. I've used it in
ImportExportTools http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html > the past to backup all my mail via IMAP to my local box, then restored > from the local box to a hosted server (again via IMAP). It was > essentially a drag/drop operation. > > In that sense, you can just set up ThunderBird or the mail client of > your choice, connect via IMAP (so you do remove mail from the servers) > to both servers, then drag/drop a copy to the other folder. A little > time consuming but safe and easy. > Fetchmail is your friend for this. > BTW - all email should be over an encrypted line for security purposes, > so POP3S or IMAPS... <rant> I wish this was a cliche. Sadly we still have not yet implemented the security solutions from the previous decade before forging ahead. Web 2.0 developers I am looking at you! All you developers out there, how 'bout learning the lessons from the '90s before spewing forth more crap. </rant> Sorry about that, I have just been to 4 web sites that do not work with NoScript installed (even with the allow all option set). All that I need now is for someone to tell me what a great idea sudo is with the NOPASSWD option. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknehC0ACgkQwRXgH3rKGfNvaACeP21q0inlbpByi3muWcGMp0AB C/oAn2CveQJjVfLFT4BxZMJXbfvVsG9M =KcIJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
