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[ale] IMAP Backup
- Subject: [ale] IMAP Backup
- From: niceguyj at comcast.net (Jim Sculley)
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:46:21 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
Brian Pitts wrote:
> I'm curious what backup strategies are used by the IMAP users on this
> list? Configuring your mail client to keep a local copy? Offline mode ?
> la http://gemal.dk/blog/2004/02/19/backup_your_imap_mail/ ? Fetchmail?
> Other software?
>
> I've been using http://tamale.net/imapbackup/ , but I realized I'd never
> seen this issue discussed.
>
I access my mail via a cyrus-imap server on my LAN and simply have the
server backup the /var/spool/imap directory nightly.
Jim S.