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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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