Looks like the only options for backing up a mailbox are offlineimap (a Python 2 tool that claims it's not under development anymore), imapfw (its replacement with last commit in 2017), and mbsync (a C tool). Is there really nothing better? I guess Python 2 > C, but =(
-
-
Oh yeah, looks like that would work, didn't know it did IMAP. Still, it's a large blob of C with surely two dozen parsers in it, I feel safer with imapsync which is in Perl.
-
it is always funny to see how people put their security hopes on programming languages. it is just silly, and likely wrong.
- 2 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
No way - fetchmail is a fountain of memory safety vulnerabilities, and has wonderful defaults like supporting SSLv2 and not validating certificates.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Those ancient, but once bread & butter tools of a UNIX admin are seemingly not present any more in collective memory and get lost in time.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I’ve also found some email clients let you drag-copy from one IMAP mail account to another, while retaining the read/unread status.
-
Thunderbird will let one drag copy from IMAP to local mailboxes, but the process is painfully slow.
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.