Re: backing up IMAP server on a hard drive

Hi Kevin,

Ahh. When you said desktop, I assumed you meant Windows.  Dovecot is an IMAP Server, so I assume that was the server you wanted to backup.

If you're running Linux, then you could run Dovecot on it and use IMAPSync to sync your Gmail locally.

Rick

Quoting Kevin Laurie superinterstellar@gmail.com:

Dear Rick, Thanks for your feedback.  I think rsync might be a better option. Its(imap server)with gmail so I dont think it would work . Furthermore I am running a linux system(Ubuntu 14.04 to be precise). Does Mercury 32 support it? From the site it seems not. Please advise.  Regards Kevin  On Thursday, August 6, 2015, Rick Romero rick@havokmon.com wrote:

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Hi, I am trying to back up my IMAP server to a hard drive. Later I intend to extract all mails for attachments. What do you reckon is the best too to perform this ?

Imapsync or Thunderbird (or something else, please recommend)

One problem I am having with imapsync is the setting for host2 (being a localhost computer). How does one set a parameter for host2 being a desktop computer.

ThanksKevin

You could run Mercury/32 http://www.pmail.com/ as a local IMAP server that could be your 'desktop destination'.

Though I'd assume the typical backup solution for a smaller environment would probably use rsync (unless your server is a VM, then you could image the whole VM via whatever utilities the host provides).

Rick

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