[ale] IMAP Backup

[Jim Sculley]

Brian Pitts wrote:
> I'm curious what backup strategies are used by the IMAP users on this 
> list? Configuring your mail client to keep a local copy? Offline mode ? 
> la http://gemal.dk/blog/2004/02/19/backup_your_imap_mail/ ? Fetchmail? 
> Other software?
>
> I've been using http://tamale.net/imapbackup/ , but I realized I'd never 
> seen this issue discussed.
>   

I access my mail via a cyrus-imap server on my LAN and simply have the 
server backup the /var/spool/imap directory nightly.

Jim S.