2011/1/20 Matt Harrison <[email protected]> > Hi guys, > > I know this isnt really a gentoo question but you always seem to come with > an amazing > answer in the end ;) > > I've got a friend who uses dreamhost for mail, and he's trying to move away > from it to > something a little more customisable. > > The problem is that he has around 2.5Gb of mail in various IMAP folders on > this > server. I'm trying to find some way of downloading all this mail but > keeping in its > current folder structure. > > I was hoping fetchmail could do it but it doesn't appear (after a quick > read) to > support arbitrary folders. I am almost thinking of contacting dreamhost > support and > asking if they can tar up the maildirs and give me access to them via FTP > or > something. > > I'm hoping someone here has an idea for something that will let me make a > copy of all > his mail, in the current folder structure and replicate it onto another > machine. > > Grateful for any help, > > Matt Harrison >
I use OfflineIMAP to backup my gmail account using IMAP. https://github.com/nicolas33/offlineimap It's easy to configure and to use. Folders are preserved as it keeps mail in maildir structure. Mickaël Bucas
