You can try offlineimap at http://offlineimap.org. It has worked fine for me for a few years now keeping local copies of my external mail in sync.
The local copies are in Maildir format so you can access them easily when you need them. Most distros have offlineimap already available. -- Pedro On 12-10-09 07:25 PM, John C Nash wrote: > I've been playing with this off and on. It appears to take some time, and a > similar issue > of "When is the operation completed", in this case the copy, in the previous > the marking. > And I have several folders to archive. However, it's definitely one contender. > > I'm thinking that I'd prefer, if I can, to figure out some more or less > direct script > based on command line (possibly mutt) to get stuff. I've used that for some > list mailings > that I wanted to get done precisely. > > Thanks, > > JN > > > On 10/09/2012 03:16 PM, Murphy Scott wrote: >> Have you tried setting up message synchronization under Synchronization and >> Storage? That will copy down the files from the server to the local machine >> as well as leave them available on the server. >> >> While it does duplicate messages and increase storage requirements, it does >> provide a local copy for offline use and it makes it a lot easier to archive >> the messages if they are already locally available. >> >> Scott >> >> On 2012-10-09, at 2:59 PM, John C Nash <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Twice this year I've lost some archived messages when moving files from an >>> IMAP account to >>> local files on Thunderbird. The problem appears to be that the IMAP server >>> is slow to mark >>> messages, and the "move" then deletes them before moving them. >>> >>> Since I discovered the problem in Feb, I've been careful, but just now went >>> back to July >>> and found some message with just blank headers. >>> >>> 1) Has anyone else seen this? I have a lot of messages, so that could be >>> part of the issue. >>> >>> 2) Any ideas how to ensure the messages are safely moved? I have to delete >>> at some point, >>> and manual checking is quite tedious. >>> >>> JN >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
