For backup of my mails, I have started with setup a local Dovecot instance (Backup mails – setup of a dovecot server).

Back in the days, I already searched for a solution and used imapsync. Because of my own examples how to use it and good experience with it, I used it again. It will be used to sync the mails between my main mailaccount and the local Dovecot accounts.

Install imapsync

To install imapsync, some software needs to be installed. From the official install documentation, you get the for different os the instructions, what and how to install. For me it is Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install  \
libauthen-ntlm-perl     \
libclass-load-perl      \
libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl \
libcrypt-ssleay-perl    \
libdata-uniqid-perl     \
libdigest-hmac-perl     \
libdist-checkconflicts-perl \
libencode-imaputf7-perl     \
libfile-copy-recursive-perl \
libfile-tail-perl       \
libio-compress-perl     \
libio-socket-inet6-perl \
libio-socket-ssl-perl   \
libio-tee-perl          \
libjson-webtoken-perl   \
libmail-imapclient-perl \
libmodule-scandeps-perl \
libnet-dbus-perl        \
libnet-ssleay-perl      \
libpar-packer-perl      \
libproc-processtable-perl \
libreadonly-perl        \
libregexp-common-perl   \
libsys-meminfo-perl     \
libterm-readkey-perl    \
libtest-fatal-perl      \
libtest-mock-guard-perl \
libtest-mockobject-perl \
libtest-pod-perl        \
libtest-requires-perl   \
libtest-simple-perl     \
libunicode-string-perl  \
liburi-perl             \
libtest-nowarnings-perl \
libtest-deep-perl       \
libtest-warn-perl       \
make                    \
time                    \
cpanminus

sudo cpanm Mail::IMAPClient

git clone https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync.git

cd imapsync
./imapsync --testslive

Setup imapsync

For each account, I want to sync, I setup a shell script with the commands to start the sync.

#!/usr/bin/bash
./imapsync \
  --host1 imap.example.com --port1 993 --user1 username --password1 secretpassword --ssl1 \
  --host2 localhost --port2 143 --user2 testaccount --password2 secretpassword2 --nossl2 --delete2 \
  --nofoldersizes --exclude Trash
# --dry --justlogin

Gmail options

#!/usr/bin/bash
./imapsync \
  --host1 imap.gmail.com --port1 993 --user1 yourmail@gmail.com --password1 apppassword --ssl1 --gmail1 \
  --host2 localhost --port2 143 --user2 verena --password2 secretpassword --nossl2 --delete2 \
  --nofoldersizes --exclude Trash
# --dry --justlogin

• Kategorie: DevOps
• Schlagwort: Backup, Dovecot, Mailserver