> Nowadays I just use rsync on Maildirs because I don't have any IMAP mail on servers where I don't have shell access, so I'm a bit out of date what the modern

> Nowadays I just use rsync on Maildirs because I don't have any IMAP mail on servers where I don't have shell access, so I'm a bit out of date what the modern state of these tools is. Interesting to hear of another option I'd not come across back then If you use rsync through ssh, I would say that's a very good option, if anything because on your server, you only need ssh to be exposed to the internet rather than ssh + an imap server. Given how servers are constantly attacked, this is way safer.