[ale] keeping Evolution/Godaddy mailbox contents before they disappear?

[Neal Rhodes]

Anyone used GreekGeeks.com?  They are apparently offering $2.95/mo for
three years for basic website and email hosting. 

Protonmail seems more interesting in encrypted mail than offering
plug-compatible IMAP  access. 

On Sat, 2019-01-19 at 19:53 -0500, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:

> +1 for protonmail.
> 
> 
> On January 19, 2019 1:04:55 PM EST, Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> 
>         On 2019-01-19 09:57, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
>         
>                 So, we have had the company email with Godaddy for lo these many years.
>                 Accessed through Evolution on Centos via IMAP, and on phones and tablets
>                 via IMAP also. 
>                 
>                 This week a chipper bright young lady from Godaddy called to inform us
>                 cheerily that they will be moving all email to Office365, and by the
>                 way, doubling our price.  Maybe by this weekend.    Have a nice day.
>                 And no, their Office 365 server doesn't support IMAP, and Centos 6
>                 Evolution doesn't seem to support Exchange, but...
>                 
>                 So, maybe our email is going away this weekend, and maybe not.   They
>                 may just leave me alone until April when my 5 years runs out and then
>                 kick me to the curb. 
>                 
>                 I'm thinking that so long as I have READ every message in Evolution, it
>                 has downloaded my complete mailbox. 
>                 
>                 Alternatively, does anyone know of a more brute-force Linux utility to
>                 Fer Sure download the complete email account via IMAP into a linux
>                 compatible mailbox format? 
>         
>         
>         Use one of the basic mail utilities like mutt.  Set it up to open an
>         IMAP folder then mark all messages and save them (marking is very fast,
>         you can tag messages with wildcards so tag-* will tag everything).
>         It'll save to mbox or maildir (whichever you choose) that you can use
>         elsewhere.
>         
>         
>                 
>                 And any suggestions on no BS plain email hosting?  Just need two
>                 mailboxes and a bunch of forwarding definitions.   I REALLY do not want
>                 to go back to running my own Postfix server. 
>         
>         
>         
>         Protonmail, Rackspace, Google?
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