How do you backup an IMAP mailbox and read it with kmail?
I knew it was gonna happen... but still. Yesterday I recieved the following message:
D'aprés les informations de la base de données du personnel et des élèves de notre chère université, il s'avére que votre compte informatique dont les caractéristiques sont :
login : ******Nom : DudePrénom : BigSera supprimé le : 02/09/03
Gee... I had that computer account this 1994, 9 years, and it was gonna be removed within three days. The problem was simple: all my important emails from the last 9 years were storred on a imap server and I had to back it up immediatly.
Well, after a few lookups on the internet I had a few solutions available
- mailsync:"Mailsync is a way of synchronizing a collection of mailboxes. The algorithm is a 3-way diff. Two mailboxes are simultaneously compared to a record of the state of both mailboxes at last sync. New messages and message deletions are propagated between the two mailboxes."
- offlineimap: " OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify your e-mail reading. With OfflineIMAP, you can read the same mailbox from multiple computers. You get a current copy of your messages on each computer, and changes you make one place will be visible on all other systems."
- imapcp: "imapcp is a simple tool to copy mailbox accounts"
Imapcp requires two imap accounts and I did not want to do that, since the accounts I had available had already stuff in them, performing a synchronisation would have been difficult.
Mailsync looked powerfull but it required the c-client library which is part of a massive imap code, that meant a fews hours of work to figure out how to compile and run everything properly. On the other hand offlineimap worked immediatly, and within a few minutes I could create a full local backup of my imap account in the Maildir format. Here was my configuration file
[general]
accounts = Test
[Account Test]
localrepository = LocalExample
remoterepository = RemoteExample
[Repository LocalExample]
type = Maildir
localfolders = ~/Test
sep = /
[Repository RemoteExample]
type = IMAP
remotehost = imap.theserveur.fr
ssl = no
remoteuser = mylogin
Now came the next problem... For some reason the format that is being used by kmail is slightly different that the standard maildir that was generated by the backup. Luckily, it was not too hard to work around that one. Imagine that your mail directory structure is something like
- INBOX
- Perso
- Steph
- Mike
- Work
- University
- Web
- Perso
maildir backup will have the following structure
- INBOX
- cur
- new
- tmp
- Perso
- cur
- new
- tmp
- Steph
- cur
- new
- tmp
- Mike
- cur
- new
- tmp
- Work
- cur
- new
- tmp
- University
- cur
- new
- tmp
- Web
- cur
- new
- tmp
cur under INBOX contains the emails belonging to the INBOX folder, the directory cur under Perso contains the emails belonging to the Perso folder, and so on.
The next problem was that the version of kmail I had would only find the emails of the top folder (INBOX), and not the subfolders... The format used by kmail is slightly different, but it is not to hard to modify it. Basically, I had to create a directory called .INBOX.directory (watch for the dot), move the folders Perso and Work in there, and perform that same step for all nested folders. So my directory structure became
- INBOX
- cur
- new
- tmp
- .INBOX.directory
- Perso
- cur
- new
- tmp
- .Perso.directory
- Steph
- cur
- new
- tmp
- Mike
- cur
- new
- tmp
- Steph
- Work
- cur
- new
- tmp
- .Work.directory
- University
- cur
- new
- tmp
- Web
- cur
- new
- tmp
- University
- Perso
Edited and reformated 12/2005
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Where did you create your subfolders?
In your home dir?
Or under INBOX under ~/Test?
I am in same situation and I a little lost.
I use offlineimap tp sync my work changes to a local repo.
Kmail reads from this repo.
But it reads only the INBOX and not the other folders which are generated using filter rules set at exchange server using Outlook 2007.
Can you help?