Re: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails

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From	not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject	Re: Citadel? Courier? Cyrus? Dovecot? - I just want to backup my emails
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi
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Date	2026-01-04 08:05 +1000
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Markus Robert Kessler <no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 18:40:16 -0000 (UTC) Lars Poulsen wrote:
> 
>> On 2026-01-03, Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> wrote:
>>> On 2 Jan 2026 07:43:14 +1000 Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>>>> movemail -v imaps://no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de
>>>>> mh:///home/[user]/Mail
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you have special characters like '@' in the username, you may need
>>>>> to percent-encode them, eg. "%40".
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.mailutils.org/wiki/Fetching_Mail_with_Movemail
>>>  
>>> On 2026-01-03, Markus Robert Kessler <no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> I use MH format for storing the mail, check what format/s your email
>>>>> client understands and change "mh://" to suit.
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.mailutils.org/manual/html_node/Local-Mailboxes.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> I actually use POP to get mail using movemail myself, but it works
>>>>> with IMAP too.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, is there an option to automatically transmit content of more
>>>> than 1 folder, i.e. inbox, draft and sent... at once?
>>>
>>> What is this "mh:" in a URL? Never saw that before. Is that part of the
>>> generic URL specification? Or is this a quirk of the "movemail"
>>> program?
>>>
>>> I guess I need to get out "man movemail" or see what's in
>>> /usr/share/docs ...
>> 
>> Apparently, GNU-Mailutils is not in the Fedora distribution. There are
>> RPMs for it in SuSE, but I am reluctant to mix "foreign"
>> RPMs into my Fedora; I have seen that greate small messes in
>> dependencies. And I really don't like to compile from sources.
> 
> Besides this, it looks like movemail can only transmit 'Inbox' but no 
> other folders?

No, just add the folder to the URL, such as:

movemail imaps://foo@example.com/draft mh:///tmp/Mail/draft

I just tested that and it works for me. I can't see any way to
download all the folders with one command like you asked before
though.

By the way, if you want to keep the messages on the server, you
probably want to use the "--sync=uidnext" option:

https://www.mailutils.org/manual/html_node/Sync.html

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