Should also be able to automate with apple mail client as allows notes import with imap(google) dest
Colin Sent from my iPhone > On 20 Oct 2026, at 12:44, Randolf Richardson, Postmaster via mailop > <[email protected]> wrote: > > You could use a famous tool called "imapsync" if you wanted to > automate the backups at vairous times throughout the day, or even > just once a day in a cron job: > > https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ > > I purchased a license for this because we use it to move IMAP4 > mailboxes over to our systems, and it works perfectly every time. It > also has the right logic to handle the various peculiar nuances with > Google's and Microsoft's eMail systems. > > While it doesn't interact directly with Maildir++ on the file > system, this is easily taken care of by setting up an IMAP4 server > like Dovecot that stores everything in Maildir++ format. The reason > is that imapsync is specialized in using the IMAP4 protocols on both > the source and destination eMail accounts. > > The author is consistently fast to respond by eMail, and is a > delight to communicate with. If you purchase a license, it will be > money well spent. > >> Hello, >> >> 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 found two ways to do this (that likely work only on Windows, but I do >> not have a choice anyway for this specific account): >> >> - 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. >> >> - I can write a script using Win32 COM to export all messages to an XML >> format called DXL. I could then write another script that converts the >> DXL into a standard MIME format email message. This seems more reliable >> or at least the scripting makes it more easily automated to be restarted >> if something goes wrong. However, converting DXL into standard MIME >> messages seems convoluted at best (HCL Notes uses his own XML markup >> language for formatting). >> >> Has anyone attempted anything like this and has recommendations? >> >> 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. >> >> Thank you. >> >> Cheers, >> Dan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mailop mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > -- > Postmaster - [email protected] > Randolf Richardson, CNA - [email protected] > Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc. > Vancouver, Beautiful British Columbia, Canada > https://www.inter-corporate.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
