Backup, copy, move your emails from and to IMAP servers. It can also load and save your emails locally.
- IMAP
- Maildir (not for Windows)
- Local database of compressed emails (boltDB)
list: list mailboxes from the accountcopy: copy all messages from one account to another one (incremental copy)history: see an history of the actions on the account (onlycopyfor now)selfupdate: update automatically to the newest version from Github releases
The copy command will save a history of messages copied from the source. The history is saved on the destination backend. This is needed to associate the messages IDs of the source with the destination.
The way the history is saved is different for each backend:
- local: the history is saved in the database file
- Maildir: the history is saved in a file
<mailbox name>.history.json - imap: the history is saved in a folder
.cache
The incremental copy will break if you delete the history: all messages will be copied again.
Each account is given an account ID so we can reference it in the history. The way this ID is generated depends on the backend:
- local: randomly generated at creation and saved in the database file
- Maildir: randomly generated at creation and saved in a file
.account.metadata.json - imap: generated from the server URL and login name (not saved anywhere)
After a connection to an IMAP server is lost, the current copy is saved in the history. It should restart from where it stopped if you rerun the copy command.
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accounts:
imap-user:
type: imap
serverURL: localhost:993
username: user@example.com
password: pass
skipTLSverification: true
maildir-test:
type: maildir
root: ./maildir-test
local-test:
type: local
file: ./local/test.db