You're on Linux. "yum install fetchmail; man fetchmail" should get you pretty far.
Any IMAP system that can handle multiple accounts should then allow you to move messages back, and forth, to multiple accounts: this was built into Thunderbird, as I remember from some years back. On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote: > My department is being forced by the university administrative IT unit to MS > Office365 distributed server ("cloud") email service, as I have communicated > in a previous query. We are now being advised by others who have been > forced to do this -- but of course not by IT -- to backup all of our email. > I use Mozilla Thunderbird, incoming IMAP, outgoing to a designated SMTP > server. I have found > > http://www.beyondinbox.com/beyondinbox-download.html > > licensed for fee that claims to function under Linux, MacOS X, and MS > Windows for this purpose. There are concerns to find a viable > licensed-for-free product that will copy IMAP folders and all of the > contents thereof to a local harddrive directory/file structure and that can > restore these same IMAP folders and the contents thereof back to a remote > IMAP service -- thus guarding against loss -- up to the last backup snapshot > -- of all email. > > Has anyone any experience with the above application? is there a licensed > for free reliable, viable alternative, GUI preferred, for Linux? > > Yasha Karant
