Thanks for all the replies guys. I asked dreamhost and they have a service for backing up e-mail. It took me a while to figure out where the mails actually were after I got it downloaded but they're all there. Now I can burn it to a cd!
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Eero Volotinen <[email protected]>wrote: > 2010/9/6 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[email protected]>: > > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010, James Stuckey wrote: > >> > >> 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. > > > > If you don't have IMAP access (or even POP3, it could work for retrieving > > emails), then see if the web interface has some kind of "export" feature. > > > > If not, then you're out of luck. You'd need to contact the support staff > of > > that email provider and see if they can do anything, or resort to hacks > > (such as forwarding emails somewhere else). > > Dreamhost supports imap: > > http://blog.dreamhosters.com/kbase/index.cgi?area=357 > > -- > Eero > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
