Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 40516
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2005/11/9-11 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:40516 Activity:nil
11/9    Does anyone know of a web hosting service that provides unix shell
        access that can access IMAP files?  I was looking at 1and1, which
        offers good space/bdw and ssh access, but their mail is maintained
        separately from the hosted files, which is kind of lame.  I'd like
        to be able to easily import or backup IMAP files using something
        like scp.  Thanks! -mds
        \_ price range?
           \_ Yes.
           \_ 1and1 with shell access an 10GB of space is $10/month.  I'd
              like something similar (e.g. < $20/month if possible) that
              has a shared pool of mail and web data.  It would have to be
              less than the cost of co-hosting my own box (which I don't
              have time for right now).  Alternatively, I guess some means
              of doing bulk transfers of IMAP data might work in a pinch, but
              I haven't seen a client capable of doing that? -mds
              \_ Typically your IMAP data is owned by one of the mail server
                 accounts and couldn't be read by your UNIX account.
                 \_ so then you're completely at the mercy of the server
                    backups?  I'd think there would be some way to take
                    a dump of those remote files as well?  Haven't found
                    a thunderbird plug-in or similar to do so, though.
                    \_ belay that, found the link below.  Thanks! -mds_
                       http://gemal.dk/blog/2004/02/19/backup_your_imap_mail
        \_ How about fetchmail?  --dbushong
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MT Plugins Backup your IMAP mail Having all your mail on an IMAP server is great. I have all my mail on an IMAP server , so I decided it was time to take a backup. Now go into Account Settings via Tools -> Account Settings and select Off line & Disk Space. Check both checkboxes and press the Select folders fo r offline use.... I selected all folders except the Junk folder where Mozilla put all the ma ils that's detected by Mozilla's spam filter. Now press Ok and Ok again to return to the main mail screen. If you like to zip up all of the mail files you have to zip those files t hat doesn't have an extension. msf files are just summary files and can safely be deleted. Next 9 Comments Gravatar of Morten Andersen Very good idea - using the client as a an (extra) backup. But a small (and probably very stupid :-)) question comes to mind: how do you plan to restore back to the IMAP server when/if the server crashes. Hope I have overlooked something obvious, and that you have a nice way to do this. Permalink Gravatar of Patrice B I used to do some IMAP backup by manually copying the EMail to the LocalF olders accounts. To me it also sounds better regarding the load on the server (specially w hen you re nice and free IMAP server do some bandwidth accounting :) ) : it should only download what is necessary. Permalink Henrik Gemal has written up a clever tutorial on how to backup IMAP mail using Mozilla Thunderbird. Follow that up with the corresponding tutoria l on restoring IMAP emails. Now those of you who're still using POP3 to get your email... I did this using the Suite about 14 months ago, and found that when backi ng up with IMAP, I had to copy to Local Folders like Patrice does (did). The reason I had to do this was because the offline version of IMAP folde rs didn't seem to be MBOX compatible. I used to copy the file to somewhe re else and try and get MozMail to re-parse it, and all the headers woul d be stuffed up, plus attachments screwed. So I had to copy everything to Local Folders, and tested by copying the m box files to another PC and proceeding to restore. This worked fine, but using the IMAP offline version never did. I also had to manually create my labyrinth of folders in Local Folders as drag-n-drop of parent folders wouldn't work (I think the bug is fixed n ow), I could only drag emails from individual folders. Permalink Gravatar of Chris B Just came across your post on how to backup IMAP mail on Thunderbird. Jus t one question - why the need to set up a separate profile? Wouldn't it work just as well to - say, once a week - go offline and download all yo ur mail into your current profile's folder. Then include that profile as one of the files that you backup? Permalink Gravatar of Chris B Just came across your post on how to backup IMAP mail on Thunderbird. Jus t one question - why the need to set up a separate profile? Wouldn't it work just as well to - say, once a week - go offline and download all yo ur mail into your current profile's folder. Then include that profile as one of the files that you backup? Permalink Gravatar of Reinhard Weiss For Linux folks there is an alternative called "offlineimap" which syncs the imap account with a local maildir. The syncing is done in both direc tions so backup and restore are quite straightforward. I sync my IMAP ac count with a local backup mail directory before I start my usual backup job.