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

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 19:53:56 EST 2019


+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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