On 27 Jul 10:48, Mark Rogers wrote:
A quick Google suggests there are lots of ways to archive IMAP accounts so I thought I'd see if anyone here has any recommendations.
Specifically: I have a handful of Gmail accounts which I'd like to archive (by which I mean keep permanent accessible backups offline).
I'd like the archive to be viewable with a GUI mail client like Thunderbird. I'd like support for OAuth2 authentication if possible.
I'd also like anecdotes from anyone who's tried this. I can see conflicts between me deleting spam or other rubbish at the "live" end that I would also want deleted from the archive, for example, but also accidental deletions (or deletions of old emails to save space) at the live end that I would not want removed from the archive.
Just use offlineimap to sync to a local set of Maildirs, then whatever you like to front them, dovecot perhaps, as an IMAP server. Job done.
Thanks,