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Backing Up an IMAP Folder Tree?

Posted by Cliff on from the taking-it-all-with-you dept.

Jason Weill asks: "After finishing up school, I'm transitioning away from my school-run IMAP e-mail account. During my time, I managed to save thousands of messages in dozens of subfolders in my 'Inbox' hierarchy. Pine lets me save an entire folder to a file easily. Mozilla creates a folder tree when I drag 'Inbox' into a local repository, but none of the messages in the subfolders are downloaded. Opera M2 assimilates all those messages into my collection, but it flattens them all into one giant mess. Are there any scripts or programs that can easily export an entire folder tree to files or import it into a local repository for an e-mail program?"

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  1. fetchmail by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can't you just run fetchmail deliver through procmail to any format you want?

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