Hi, Am So den 18. Okt 2026 um 9:50 schrieb Daniele Nicolodi: > sorry for the tangentially related topic, but this is the best place > that comes to mind for a question like this. Feel free to redirect me > somewhere else if you know one more appropriate. > > I have an HCL Notes (formerly Lotus Notes then IBM Notes) account used > primarily for email. I would like to backup the emails in there into a > standard email setup using IMAP on Maildir mailboxes. > > Does anyone know a good solution for doing this?
I usually utilize imapfilter[0] for that. But there are many more out there. You could even "miss"use dovecot[1] for that. But I never done that. > - I can drag-and-drop individual email messages from the HCL Notes > client into a filesystem folder to get an export in .eml files. These > can be then imported quite easily into a Maildir folder. I tried this on > a few messages and it seem to work. However, I read that this solution > may have reliability problems when applied to a large amount of > messages. It does not work for calendar invites and maybe other things > that appear as email messages in HCL Notes. Maybe you could use firefox if you are for a manual approach. > The easiest would be if the HCL Notes administrators would enable the > IMAP service, but I have not been able to convince them that this would > be a good thing. This would be the most reliable way. But at least imapfilter is done via lua scripting. So there might be a way to speak native lotus notes protocol. But I don't know about that. Gruß Klaus [0] https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter [1] https://www.dovecot.org/ -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen <[email protected]> Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753 62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C
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