Re: [Evolution] Automatically downloading all e-mails from IMAP server

[Karsten Kloss <mail karsten-kloss de>]

Sorry, but is POP3 not available? Change to POP3 and you have your
backup. 

regards
Karsten


Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2015, 10:29 +0000 schrieb Pete Biggs:
> > I tried offlineimap, and it clearly downloaded all messages from all my
> > accounts. It seems a much better way of making backups.
>
> Evolution is a mail client, it's not designed to make backups of your
> remote mail - being able to download and make local copies of messages
> is only for convenience of access to messages when you are off-line.
>
> > Evolution
> > doesn't give me the same feeling of control over data. That's a pity,
> > because I have GNOME as my desktop environment of choice and Evolution
> > is well integrated in it. With webmail I also don't receive
> > notifications when a message arrives.
>
> You don't have to give up Evolution.  The purpose of OfflineIMAP is not
> for backing up emails, it's to provide a local synchronised repository
> of mail that in reality resides on an IMAP server.  The fact that it
> makes it easy to then backup your email locally is a by-product.  
>
> Evolution can read the OfflineIMAP mail store (it's in Maildir format),
> so point Evolution at that repository and just use it as normal.
> Changes to the local store are synchronised back to the IMAP server.
>
> See the OfflineIMAP web pages (http://offlineimap.org/) for more
> details.
>
> P.
>
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