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 =(
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Replying to @FiloSottile
You could just use fetchmail? It's been around and maintained forever, it's practically a standard UNIX tool. You could use it to make you an mbox, and backup that.
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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.
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Replying to @FiloSottile @taviso
This is what unprivileged user namespaces are for.
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I think what he’s getting at is the possibility of some terrible arbitrary code execution bug triggered by an email input and a parser bug which could get at the content of other emails or something else.
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Seems just as likely with a perl script to me, probably full of unanchored regex and backticks 
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And evals.
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