As regular readers of this blog know, I am in the process of trying to back up Google Apps accounts to Dovecot. Well I have finally found my solution. Not only does it work, but its in Ruby.
First thing that you’ll need to do is grab yourself a copy of Larch. I did this simply by typing and it installed everything nicely, but click the link to the repository on Github if it doesn’t work for you.
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I have been trying to find a way to copy everything from a Gmail account to a Dovecot mail server. The way I have ended up doing it so far is simply by using Apple Mail (if you regularly read this blog, you’d know that I use a Mac). The steps are as follows:
This works, but I have to use a slow connection (my home connection) and I have a lot of accounts to do this for, so I would much prefer to script this. The problem is that I have been trying to get this to work with either imapsync or imapcopy. Neither seem to work properly.
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