Comments on: Backing up your email http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/backing-up-your-email/ Adventures across space and time with the Python programming language Sat, 04 May 2013 20:54:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rasjid http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/backing-up-your-email/#comment-1745 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:43:59 +0000 http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/?p=1532#comment-1745 If all your emails are accessed through a web interface with your provider, you still have a backup issue, just a different one. I was with an ISP once which was bought out by another ISP. One of sysadmins with the original ISP was not happy with the offer made by the ISP doing the buying and trashed some / all of the mail servers. I believe that much was restored from backups, but not all. Mail was lost. ISPs are not infallible.

]]> By: Wu http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/backing-up-your-email/#comment-1349 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:38:34 +0000 http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/?p=1532#comment-1349 FYI, if you want to create a quick backup of your emails, you can use this small python script to save your emails to an mbox file using IMAP:

http://wiki.e-shell.org/IMAPFolderBackupTool

The mbox file can be g|bzipped later to save some space or added to some incremental backup procedure you would be using.

The script is a bit old, but works fine (at least for me)

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