{"id":380,"date":"2007-11-01T09:20:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T08:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=380"},"modified":"2007-11-01T09:20:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T08:20:36","slug":"gmail_imap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2007\/11\/01\/gmail_imap.php","title":{"rendered":"GMail IMAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Google <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/free-imap-for-gmail.html\">announced that all gmail users are getting IMAP<\/a>, this is fantastic news.  I won&#8217;t actually use it with an IMAP client but I will use it to backup my mail and my meta data!  It might even help me to slowly import years and years of old mail into GMail.<br \/>\nSo how to do a backup, first you need <a href=\"http:\/\/freshmeat.net\/projects\/imapsync\/\">imapsync<\/a> or something similar, I&#8217;ll use imapsync since that&#8217;s what I know.<br \/>\nSecond you need a local imap server to dump your gmail account into, I am using my current server that already has other mail in it so I made a sub-folder called <i>GMail<\/i> to sync into.<br \/>\nOnce you have imapsync installed its pretty simple with the following command line:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\nimapsync --host1 imap.gmail.com --ssl1 --user1 you@gmail.com \\\n--password1 secret --host2 your.imap.com --user2 you --password2 secret \\\n--prefix2 INBOX.GMail. --authuser1 you@gmail.com --authmech1 LOGIN \\\n--authmech2 LOGIN --syncinternaldates\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to look at that command and set appropriate options for your user, password and imap account.  Also if you&#8217;re going to run this on a shared machine where other user accounts exist, you should use the <i>&#8211;passfile1<\/i> and <i>&#8211;passfile2<\/i> options to not show your password in the output of <i>ps<\/i>.<br \/>\nThe process is slow, and creates some duplicates for instance you&#8217;ll have a <i>[Gmail]\/All Mail<\/i> folder that contains all your mail but you&#8217;ll also have folders for each tag that would have copies of messages that are already in your All Mail.  This to me is a small price to pay for the peace of mind that solid off-site backups provide as the thought of my mail on a 3rd party system has been keeping me awake \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Google announced that all gmail users are getting IMAP, this is fantastic news. I won&#8217;t actually use it with an IMAP client but I will use it to backup my mail and my meta data! It might even help me to slowly import years and years of old mail into GMail. So how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}