On Thursday 20 January 2011 15:23:08 Matt Harrison wrote: > Hi guys, > > I know this isnt really a gentoo question but you always seem to come with > an amazing answer in the end ;) > > I've got a friend who uses dreamhost for mail, and he's trying to move away > from it to something a little more customisable. > > The problem is that he has around 2.5Gb of mail in various IMAP folders on > this server. I'm trying to find some way of downloading all this mail but > keeping in its current folder structure. > > I was hoping fetchmail could do it but it doesn't appear (after a quick > read) to support arbitrary folders. I am almost thinking of contacting > dreamhost support and asking if they can tar up the maildirs and give me > access to them via FTP or something. > > I'm hoping someone here has an idea for something that will let me make a > copy of all his mail, in the current folder structure and replicate it > onto another machine. > > Grateful for any help, > > Matt Harrison
Hi Matt, I generally use either of the following two options: - Use a Mail-client (thunderbird, kmail,....) to copy them across (copy folder should work) - Use imapsync (net-mail/imapsync) to copy the email from one IMAP-server to another. -- Joost
