Thanks for the reply! I understand what imapsync does, but I don't know how to use it. Everyone has told me to use it, but no one has told me how. I don't have another server to sync these to, so the tutorial someone linked doesn't help me. I tried the man page but (in testing) it's not any help.
The only access I have to this email account as of now is via http://webmail.dreamhost.com/src/login.php or at least that's what dreamhost tech-support told me. I have a half-dozen or so accounts hosted with them, and I'd like to somehow take all that mail from those accounts and dump it to a CD so that if I want to in the future, I could read through it/etc. ciao James S. On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Bhasker C V <bhas...@unixindia.com> wrote: > > If the tool you are looking for is to do a mirror of all the mails from > IMAP erver to your local disk, then, toy can look at this > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/ > > This will create a copy of the complete mails in all your folders in the > imap server to your disk so that you can later copy them into a DVD with the > burner of your choice (i particularly like mkisofs and growisofs/cdrecord > appropriately) > > In case it is pop, then it is easy. Use the mail folders present in the > client machine which will contain all the mails. > > > > On Sat, 4 Sep 2010, James Stuckey wrote: > > Hi, I asked a question a week or so ago about backing up e-mail. What I >> meant was that I wanted >> to back it up to a CD. The responses I got talked about backing it up to >> an IMAP server. Does >> anyone know how to back it up to a CD? >> >> >> > Bhasker C V > Registered linux user #306349 > Fedora Ambassador: Bhaslinux > > >
