Le 8 mai 2013 à 02:44, voytek@sbt.net.au a écrit :

On Wed, May 8, 2013 10:34 am, Reindl Harald wrote:

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yes http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Man Pages/man1/dovecot.1.html

and for the archive itself imapsync and cron is his friend

Reindl,

thanks, so, dovecot should be there already, I'd just need to config it, and, I could run imapsync on the real server to 'push' sync process to the Mac;

Hello,

Note that Dovecot comes with the Server version of the OS only. Cost shouldn't be a problem -the Server package is terribly affordable- but, for the purpose you are considering, installing it on a client machine may be somewhat overkill, or even problematic (after all, a server isn't supposed to be run as a general purpose GUI machine...). On the other hand, Dovecot compiles easily and without a glitch on Mac OS X.

HTH, Axel

Am 08.05.2013 02:49, schrieb Ben Morrow:

At 2AM +0200 on 8/05/13 you (Reindl Harald) wrote:

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Am 08.05.2013 02:30, schrieb voytek@sbt.net.au:

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I have Doveot 2.1.1 on Centos, all's well

user mails are kept for 60 days, then, 'aged off' (deleted)

a Mac user with two domains and two dozen users asked me:

can I set a mail server on my home Mac server, and, 'mirror' the real mail server mailboxes so than I can have an offline mail archive for ever ?

I know very little about Macs, can I setup dovceot on Mac? any tips/suggestions/howtos for mirroring/archiving as so?

yes http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPag...

and for the archive itself imapsync and cron is his friend

Is it possible to use dsync for this? You would need a way to say 'don't delete mails from the destination', and I don't know if it will do that...

and that is why i recommended imapsync because it does not delete as long you do not specify it explicit

usage: /usr/bin/imapsync [options]

Several options are mandatory.

--dry : Makes imapsync doing nothing, just print what would be done without --dry.

--host1 <string> : Source or "from" imap server. Mandatory. --port1 <int> : Port to connect on host1. Default is 143. --user1 <string> : User to login on host1. Mandatory. --showpasswords : Shows passwords on output instead of "MASKED". Useful to restart a complete run by just reading a log. --password1 <string> : Password for the user1. --host2 <string> : "destination" imap server. Mandatory. --port2 <int> : Port to connect on host2. Default is 143. --user2 <string> : User to login on host2. Mandatory. --password2 <string> : Password for the user2.

--passfile1 <string> : Password file for the user1. It must contain the password on the first line. This option avoids to show the password on the command line like --password1 does. --passfile2 <string> : Password file for the user2. Contains the password. --domain1 <string> : Domain on host1 (NTLM authentication). --domain2 <string> : Domain on host2 (NTLM authentication). --authuser1 <string> : User to auth with on host1 (admin user). Avoid using --authmech1 SOMETHING with --authuser1. --authuser2 <string> : User to auth with on host2 (admin user). --proxyauth1 : Use proxyauth on host1. Requires --authuser1. Required by Sun/iPlanet/Netscape IMAP servers to be able to use an administrative user. --proxyauth2 : Use proxyauth on host2. Requires --authuser2. Required by Sun/iPlanet/Netscape IMAP servers to be able to use an administrative user

--authmd51 : Use MD5 authentification for host1. --authmd52 : Use MD5 authentification for host2. --authmech1 <string> : Auth mechanism to use with host1:

                     PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5 etc. Use UPPERCASE.

--authmech2 <string> : Auth mechanism to use with host2. See --authmech1

--ssl1 : Use an SSL connection on host1.

--ssl2 : Use an SSL connection on host2.

--tls1 : Use an TLS connection on host1.

--tls2 : Use an TLS connection on host2.

--folder <string> : Sync this folder.

--folder <string> : and this one, etc.

--folderrec <string> : Sync this folder recursively.

--folderrec <string> : and this one, etc.

--include <regex> : Sync folders matching this regular expression

--include <regex> : or this one, etc.

                     in case both --include --exclude options are
                     use, include is done before.

--exclude <regex> : Skips folders matching this regular expression Several folders to avoid: --exclude 'fold1|fold2|f3' skips fold1, fold2 and f3. --exclude <regex> : or this one, etc. --regextrans2 <regex> : Apply the whole regex to each destination folders. --regextrans2 <regex> : and this one. etc. When you play with the --regextrans2 option, first add also the safe options --dry --justfolders Then, when happy, remove --dry, remove --justfolders. Have in mind that --regextrans2 is applied after prefix and separator inversion.

--tmpdir <string> : Where to store temporary files and subdirectories. Will be created if it doesn't exist. Default is system specific, Unix is /tmp but it's often small and deleted at reboot. --tmpdir /var/tmp should be better. --pidfile <string> : The file where imapsync pid is written. --pidfilelocking : Abort if pidfile already exists. Usefull to avoid concurrent transfers on the same mailbox.

--prefix1 <string> : Remove prefix to all destination folders (usually INBOX. or INBOX/ or an empty string "") you have to use --prefix1 if host1 imap server does not have NAMESPACE capability, all other cases are bad. --prefix2 <string> : Add prefix to all host2 folders. See --prefix1 --sep1 <string> : Host1 separator in case NAMESPACE is not supported. --sep2 <string> : Host2 separator in case NAMESPACE is not supported.

--regexmess <regex> : Apply the whole regex to each message before transfer. Example: 's/\000/ /g' # to replace null by space. --regexmess <regex> : and this one. --regexmess <regex> : and this one, etc. --regexflag <regex> : Apply the whole regex to each flags list. Example: 's/"Junk"//g' # to remove "Junk" flag. --regexflag <regex> : and this one, etc.

--delete : Deletes messages on host1 server after a successful transfer. Option --delete has the following behavior: it marks messages as deleted with the IMAP flag \Deleted, then messages are really deleted with an EXPUNGE IMAP command. --delete2 : Delete messages in host2 that are not in host1 server. Useful for backup or pre-sync. --delete2duplicates : Delete messages in host2 that are duplicates. Works only without --useuid since duplicates are detected with header part of each message. --delete2folders : Delete folders in host2 that are not in host1 server. For safety, first try it like this (it is safe): --delete2folders --dry --justfolders --nofoldersizes --delete2foldersonly <regex>: Deleted only folders matching regex. --delete2foldersbutnot <regex>: Do not delete folders matching regex. Example: --delete2foldersbutnot "/Tasks|Contacts|Foo/" --noexpunge : Do not expunge messages on host1. Expunge really deletes messages marked deleted. Expunge is made at the beginning, on host1 only. Newly transferred messages are also expunged if option --delete is given. No expunge is done on host2 account (unless --expunge2) --expunge1 : Expunge messages on host1 after messages transfer. --expunge2 : Expunge messages on host2 after messages transfer. --uidexpunge2 : uidexpunge messages on the host2 account that are not on the host1 account, requires --delete2

--syncinternaldates : Sets the internal dates on host2 same as host1. Turned on by default. Internal date is the date a message arrived on a host (mtime). --idatefromheader : Sets the internal dates on host2 same as the "Date:" headers.

--maxsize <int> : Skip messages larger (or equal) than <int> bytes --minsize <int> : Skip messages smaller (or equal) than <int> bytes --maxage <int> : Skip messages older than <int> days. final stats (skipped) don't count older messages see also --minage --minage <int> : Skip messages newer than <int> days. final stats (skipped) don't count newer messages You can do (+ are the messages selected): past|----maxage+++++++++++++++>now past|+++++++++++++++minage---->now past|----maxage+++++minage---->now (intersection) past|++++minage-----maxage++++>now (union)

--search <string> : Selects only messages returned by this IMAP SEARCH command. Applied on both sides. --search1 <string> : Same as --search for selecting host1 messages only. --search2 <string> : Same as --search for selecting host2 messages only. --search CRIT equals --search1 CRIT --search2 CRIT

--exitwhenover <int> : Stop syncing when total bytes transferred reached. Gmail per day allows 2500000000 down 500000000 upload.

--useheader <string> : Use this header to compare messages on both sides. Ex: Message-ID or Subject or Date. --useheader <string> and this one, etc.

--subscribed : Transfers subscribed folders. --subscribe : Subscribe to the folders transferred on the host2 that are subscribed on host1. On by default. --subscribe_all : Subscribe to the folders transferred on the host2 even if they are not subscribed on host1.

--nofoldersizes : Do not calculate the size of each folder in bytes and message counts. Default is to calculate them. --nofoldersizesatend : Do not calculate the size of each folder in bytes and message counts at the end. Default is on. --justfoldersizes : Exit after having printed the folder sizes.

--syncacls : Synchronises acls (Access Control Lists). --nosyncacls : Does not synchronize acls. This is the default. Acls in IMAP are not standardized, be careful.

--usecache : Use cache to speedup. --nousecache : Do not use cache. Caveat: --useuid --nousecache creates duplicates on multiple runs. --useuid : Use uid instead of header as a criterium to recognize messages. Option --usecache is then implied unless --nousecache is used.

--debug : Debug mode. --debugcontent : Debug content of the messages transfered. --debugflags : Debug flags. --debugimap1 : IMAP debug mode for host1. imap debug is very verbose. --debugimap2 : IMAP debug mode for host2. --debugimap : IMAP debug mode for host1 and host2.

--version : Print software version. --noreleasecheck : Do not check for new imapsync release (a http request). --justconnect : Just connect to both servers and print useful information. Need only --host1 and --host2 options. --justlogin : Just login to both host1 and host2 with users credentials, then exit. --justfolders : Do only things about folders (ignore messages).

--help : print this help.

Example: to synchronize imap account "foo" on "imap.truc.org" to imap account "bar" on "imap.trac.org" with foo password "secret1" and bar password "secret2"

/usr/bin/imapsync
--host1 imap.truc.org --user1 foo --password1 secret1
--host2 imap.trac.org --user2 bar --password2 secret2