Backing Up an IMAP Folder Tree?

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 31, 2003 @10:56AM 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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imapxfer by Alrescha · 2003-01-31 11:11 · Score: 4, Informative

You might want to try imapxfer from the UW-IMAP toolkit:

http://www.washington.edu/imap/

The source for the utilities is at:

ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap-utils.tar .Z

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freshmeat.net - search for IMAP copy by pbulteel73 · 2003-01-31 11:28 · Score: 4, Informative

Just found this... don't know how well it works, but it looks like it does what you want.
IMAP Copy