[NTLUG:Discuss] Copying all email/folders between two IMAP accounts auto-magically

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sun Apr 26 10:31:47 CDT 2009


On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:58:47PM -0500, David Simmons wrote:
> 
> 
> > Guys - subject says it all...does anyone have any howto's to
> automatically
> > copy / rsync two IMAP email accounts?  I'm
> using ThunderBird with the
> > two accounts - but Thunderbird only
> let's me manually do one folder at a
> > time....what a drag!?
> 
> Yes - that is a drag....but doing a little research will reveal
> the 'imapsync' command (it's probably in your apt-get / yum install system
> already).
> 
> By installing that tool - you can do what you're
> asking (automagically sync two off-site email accounts using
> IMAP).....here's  the command-line you'll probably need to use:

I also use "offlineimap" quite heavily, and I think it's able
to sync multiple IMAP locations, as well as local mail stores.
I use it all of the time to sync my local mailbox with gmail.

Pm




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