Backup, restore and migrate email accounts.
There are two types of backups:
- Keep all (the default) - progressively saves a local copy of all emails,
- Mirror - adds and deletes emails from the local copy to keep it up to date with the account.
- Migrate - use the local copy to populate emails on another account. This is a once-only action that deletes any existing emails on the destination account.
- Mirror - make a destination account match the local copy. This action can be repeated.
- Restore - push the local copy back to the original account.
See below for a full list of commands.
If you have Homebrew, do this:
brew install imap-backupgem install imap-backupIf that doesn't work, see the detailed installation instructions.
If you want to use imap-backup directly from the source code, see here.
As a first step, you need to add accounts via a menu-driven command line program:
Run:
imap-backup setupTo use imap-backup with GMail, you will need to enable 'App passwords' on your account.
Manually, from the command line:
imap-backupAlternatively, add it to your crontab.
Backups can also be inspected, for example via local show and exported via utils export-to-thunderbird.
- backup
- local accounts
- local check
- local folders
- local list
- local show
- migrate
- mirror
- remote folders
- restore
- setup
- utils export-to-thunderbird
- utils ignore-history
For a full list of available commands, run
imap-backup helpFor more information about a command, run
imap-backup help COMMANDIf you have problems:
- ensure that you have the latest release,
- run
imap-backupwith the-vor--verboseparameter.
See the Development documentation for notes on development and testing.
See the CHANGELOG to a list of changes that have been made in each release.