From: no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de
On 2 Jan 2026 07:43:14 +1000 Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> Markus Robert Kessler wrote:
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> and happy new year!
>>
>> 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.
>
> Personally I'd ignore all those "solutions" as overkill and use movemail
> from GNU Mailutils:
>
> movemail -v imaps://no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de mh:///home/[user]/Mail
>
> If you have special characters like '@' in the username, you may need to
> percent-encode them, eg. "%40".
>
> https://www.mailutils.org/wiki/Fetching_Mail_with_Movemail
>
> I use MH format for storing the mail, check what format/s your email
> client understands and change "mh://" to suit.
>
> https://www.mailutils.org/manual/html_node/Local-Mailboxes.html
>
> I actually use POP to get mail using movemail myself, but it works with
> IMAP too.
>
Hi Kev,
movemail seems to work, thanks!
Well, in the document mh was misspelled as
'mh://Mail' instead of
'mh:///Mail', so it took a while until I got it to work.
Anyway, is there an option to automatically transmit content of more than
1 folder, i.e. inbox, draft and sent... at once?
Best regards,
Markus
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