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

[Horkan Smith]

I'd be surprised if Evolution doesn't have it locally, but just in case...

Take a look at fetchmail and see if it'll meet your needs.

I used to run this manually whenever I wanted to grab email from yahoo:

get_yahoo_mail_and_delete_from_server:
fetchmail -v -a -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" -p pop3 -u mynameonyahoo pop.mail.yahoo.com

Caution: it's been a long time since I've used it, so beware - the command options may have changed.
Note that my command line above *DOES* delete the original, which probably isn't what you want!
I *think* you add a '-k' to keep the email on the server, but check the man page.

Caution 2: this depends on you having a local mail system that works.  There may be a way to work around that by tweaking the delivery agent.

Caution 3: of course, I was using POP3, but it has IMAP options too.

fetchmail is really intended to be used from a config file as a daemon, but this matched what I wanted to do a little better at the time.

later!
   horkan

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 12:57:26PM -0500, 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?
>
>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.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Neal
>MNOP Ltd
>
>
>

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