Hello, I'm looking for an app to backup my entire IMAP email account to my local PC. This is mainly so that if disaster strikes and my email server is wiped out, I won't lose any email. I'll run the app via cron, every 10 minutes, so that my local backup is always up to date. (And the local backup is on a partition that is in turn automatically snapshot-backup'd daily, so even if a server error deleted all my mail and then my backup synced that, I can always go back to yesterday's copy, etc.)
I use Thunderbird as my main email client, and I've been using OfflineIMAP for backup purposes. But OfflineIMAP syncs both ways, which causes annoying issues; for example, when I delete email subfolders in Thunderbird, OfflineIMAP automatically re-creates them *on the mailserver*. Same thing when I move mail subfolders. Or when I read an email in Thunderbird, often it'll spontaneously change back to unread status after OfflineIMAP runs. So what I really want is a one-way sync: an app that mirrors my mail server to a local maildir, but never writes anything at all to the mail server (and certainly never deletes anything on the mail server). Basically, I want rsync for IMAP -- if I had shell access to my mail server then I would just use rsync and be done with it. Is mbsync suitable for this purpose? If so, could you be so kind as to write a small config file to make it work this way? I am reading the manpage, but I'm not quite understanding the sync/push/pull matrix stuff... Thank you, -- Anthony DiSante ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
