Re: Backing up email to a CD
2010/9/6 James Stuckey <jhstuckey@gmail.com>:
> Thanks for the reply! I understand what imapsync does, but I don't know how
> to use it. Everyone has told me to use it, but no one has told me how. I
> don't have another server to sync these to, so the tutorial someone linked
> doesn't help me. I tried the man page but (in testing) it's not any help.
>
> The only access I have to this email account as of now is via
>
> http://webmail.dreamhost.com/src/login.php
>
> or at least that's what dreamhost tech-support told me. I have a half-dozen
> or so accounts hosted with them, and I'd like to somehow take all that mail
> from those accounts and dump it to a CD so that if I want to in the future,
> I could read through it/etc.
I think dreamhost also offers mail via imap. You can easily setup
local imap server on debian machine by installing dovecot and
then just imapsync from dreamhost to localhost. remember to use
maildir format on dovecot..
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Eero
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