Anthony, in case syncing every 10 minutes uses too much bandwidth, disk, and/or CPU, and/or you want to sync more frequently than every 10 minutes, you might find mswatch helpful. mswatch runs mbsync each the mailbox changes. It requires Linux and Maildir. http://mswatch.sourceforge.net/
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Anthony DiSante <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for an app to backup my entire IMAP email account to my local > PC. > This is mainly so that if disaster strikes and my email server is wiped > out, I > won't lose any email. I'll run the app via cron, every 10 minutes, so > that my > local backup is always up to date. (And the local backup is on a partition > that is in turn automatically snapshot-backup'd daily, so even if a server > error deleted all my mail and then my backup synced that, I can always go > back > to yesterday's copy, etc.) > > I use Thunderbird as my main email client, and I've been using OfflineIMAP > for > backup purposes. But OfflineIMAP syncs both ways, which causes annoying > issues; for example, when I delete email subfolders in Thunderbird, > OfflineIMAP automatically re-creates them *on the mailserver*. Same thing > when I move mail subfolders. Or when I read an email in Thunderbird, often > it'll spontaneously change back to unread status after OfflineIMAP runs. > > So what I really want is a one-way sync: an app that mirrors my mail > server to > a local maildir, but never writes anything at all to the mail server (and > certainly never deletes anything on the mail server). Basically, I want > rsync > for IMAP -- if I had shell access to my mail server then I would just use > rsync and be done with it. > > Is mbsync suitable for this purpose? If so, could you be so kind as to > write > a small config file to make it work this way? I am reading the manpage, > but > I'm not quite understanding the sync/push/pull matrix stuff... > > Thank you, > > -- > Anthony DiSante > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > isync-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel > > -- Chris Frost http://www.frostnet.net/chris/
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