imap-backup

Forwarding emails is problematic especially if your provider for the primary mx does not have great spam filtering and then you end up sending spam to your backup account. It certainly does not get around the ...if your account gets banned maybe the forwards will still work... concept but in general something like https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup to backup your email and then add them to a typical backup process with your other files works well.

There’s another great alternative called “imap-backup” [0], which I use to backup my mail accounts. It can sync, incrementally backup and/or restore e-mail accounts. It runs great as a container, does its job and exits. If anyone wants an ARM version, I maintain a container at [1]. [0]: https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup [1]: https://hub.docker.com/r/bayindirh/imap-backup

I can recommend https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup for backing up gmail.

When my account was closed by an ISP, Thunderbird (unexpectedly for me) mirrored the lack of access to the IMAP folders and deleted all my local mail. Fortunately this was a temporary issue that I was able to recover from. Apps like imap-backup (https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup) allow retaining IMAP data. In short, don't rely on TB to retain IMAP data, (like Dropbox) it is not a backup and IME will sync data losses, deleting local data if it is no longer accessible on the server. Take care.

Personally, I use https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup to archive all my emails and then only keep them on the remote server for as long as I need to (basically until I read them and respond or download an attachment into https://docs.paperless-ngx.com )

Thanks. I realized that I was just reading about GMail backups a few days. Here are some repos that I happened to star on GH. * https://github.com/gauteh/lieer * https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync * https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup

I’ve been using the imap-backup container for a couple of years, it has been rock solid. I test a full restore quarterly. https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup

I've used this project, but it's been a while: https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup . It's a CLI app, though, so it's maybe not the best solution for non-technical end-users. Some email providers have IMAP import, where you just give them the password and they'll do it for you. Not the best solution in terms of security but might be ok if you're getting rid of your account anyway.

From this[1] report: "'I’ve had that account for the last, say, 15 years,' said Peterson to TheDCNF. 'All of my correspondence is in that account. It’s hundreds of thousands of emails from people all over the world.'" Setting aside the fact that Gmail hasn't even existed for 15 years[2], this underscores the need for users to backup their cloud-based email accounts. A few of the many options include MailStore Home for Windows[3], Horcrux for macOS[4], imap-backup[5] for *nix (or anything Ruby runs on apparently), and Gmvault[6] for Windows, macOS, and Linux. [1] Google And YouTube Ban Prof Who Refused To Use Gender-Neutral Pronouns http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/01/google-and-youtube-ban-pro... [2] History of Gmail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail [3] https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/ [4] https://thehorcr