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	2026-01-02 07:43 +1000
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Markus Robert Kessler <no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de> wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> and happy new year!
> 
> I am in contract with a webhoster, having webserver, email and a few other 
> things.
> 
> But, there is no way to backup my emails stored on their imap server.
> Meaning, when anything happens to that infrastructure (or they go broke) 
> then all my emails are gone.
> 
> So, I'd like to mirror them via imapsync to a local instance of some imap 
> server, and then pack them together as a tgz archive.
> 
> Now I see, that there are several solutions out, see subject, and I don't 
> know which one fits best and what component is needed.

Personally I'd ignore all those "solutions" as overkill and use
movemail from GNU Mailutils:

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

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.

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