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Thanks so much for crafting and maintaining imapbackup, Rui! It worked a treat in backing up tens of thousands of messages that Mail.app refused to archive prop
by miles 6y ago
Thanks so much for crafting and maintaining imapbackup, Rui! It worked a treat in backing up tens of thousands of messages that Mail.app refused to archive properly.
The feature set is likely to appeal to many HN users:
* ZERO dependencies. (other than Python 2.5 or higher)
* Copies every single message from every single folder (or a subset of folders) in your IMAP server to your disk.
* Does incremental copying (i.e., tries very hard to not copy messages twice).
* Tries to do everything as safely as possible (only performs read operations on IMAP).
* Generates mbox formatted files that can be imported into Mail.app (just choose "Other" on the import dialog).
* Optionally compresses the result files on the fly (and can append to them).
* Is completely and utterly free (distributed under the MIT license).