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Re: Backing up email to a CD



Thanks for all the replies guys. I asked dreamhost and they have a service for backing up e-mail. It took me a while to figure out where the mails actually were after I got it downloaded but they're all there. Now I can burn it to a cd!

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi> wrote:
2010/9/6 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>:
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2010, James Stuckey wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> If you don't have IMAP access (or even POP3, it could work for retrieving
> emails), then see if the web interface has some kind of "export" feature.
>
> If not, then you're out of luck. You'd need to contact the support staff of
> that email provider and see if they can do anything, or resort to hacks
> (such as forwarding emails somewhere else).

Dreamhost supports imap:

http://blog.dreamhosters.com/kbase/index.cgi?area=357

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Eero


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