Imaptar is a utility to dump an entire IMAP mailbox, INBOX and all folders, in maildir format to a tar file.
Usage: imaptar <flags>
Flags:
-s, --server <name> IMAPS server name
-u, --user <name> username
-t, --tar <file> tar output filename
Optional flags:
-p, --port <port> IMAPS server port (default 993)
-P, --pass <pass> password
-E, --envpass VAR get password from environment var $VAR
-z, --gzip compress the output
If you do not supply the -P or -E option, you will be prompted for the password.
export IMAPPASS="TrustNo1"
imaptar -s imap.xs4all.nl -u mikevs -E IMAPPASS -z -t maildir.tar.gz
Only works on IMAP servers where "/" is the folder seperator.
You need to have the 'gĂł' compiler installed, ofcourse. Then:
$ go get
$ go build
If you are running debian or ubuntu and you would like to have a .deb format package, run:
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc