Location saving?

[farzadha2]

Currently running the script saves the mbox files in the current directory.

NOTE: mbox files are created in the current working directory.
So i thought i would copy the script in different folder to backup a few emails and created a bash script but even though it saves in the root directory

python /media/usb/emailbak2/imapbackup.py --thunderbird -s mail.mydomain.com -u [e-mail] -p mypass -e 

python /media/usb/emailbak3/imapbackup.py --thunderbird -s mail.mydomain.com -u [e-mail] -p mypass -e 

Not sure if possible to tell the imapbackup.py to save in another directory?

Thanks

[Duvergier Claude]

"Current working directory" is not "where the executable is".
"Current working directory" is what the pwd command prints.

To store backup at various places move into that directory before executing the command:

cd /media/usb/emailbak2/
python /path/to/imapbackup.py --thunderbird -s mail.mydomain.com -u [e-mail] -p mypass -e

cd /media/usb/emailbak3/
python /path/to/imapbackup.py --thunderbird -s mail.mydomain.com -u [e-mail] -p mypass -e

Having a CLI option to define output directory would be great ;)

[farzadha2]

thanks for the reply, that did the trick yeah i wished be an option to do mass backing up with CLI option with directory