From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Markus Robert Kessler  writes:   
   > I am in contract with a webhoster, having webserver, email and a few other   
   > things.   
   >   
   > But, there is no way to backup my emails stored on their imap server.   
   > Meaning, when anything happens to that infrastructure (or they go broke)   
   > then all my emails are gone.   
   >   
   > So, I'd like to mirror them via imapsync to a local instance of some   
   > imap server, and then pack them together as a tgz archive.   
   >   
   > Now I see, that there are several solutions out, see subject, and I   
   > don't know which one fits best and what component is needed.   
      
   Dovecot is fairly easy to set up. I’ve not tried the other IMAP servers.   
      
   > Does anyone have some experience here? Do I need an mta (exim for   
   > instance) to just sync emails from external imap server to local?   
      
   I’ve never used imapsync but there’s no reason copying messages from one   
   IMAP server to another should require an MTA.   
      
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