webishdev / mail-backup

Simple setup to backup your mails

Mail backup

Simple setup to fetch mails from remote IMAP and add them to a local server.

The following awesome projects help to backup your mails

• docker-mailserver
• roundcube
• imapsync

Requirements

Install Docker

Usage

Clone this repository (will require git) or download a ZIP file containing all files from here

• Create a environment file named .env in the root folder with the following values
  • REMOTE_IMAP_SERVER= the hostname of the remote IMAP server
  • IMAP_USER= the user which will be used to copy the mails. It MUST exists on the remote IMAP server, and will be created on the local IMAP server
  • REMOTE_IMAP_PASSWORD= the password to login into the remote IMAP
  • LOCAL_IMAP_PASSWORD= the password to login into the local IMAP (can be different then the remote one)
• Start the container environment with ./start.sh (will not start detached and block the terminal)
• In another terminal start ./sync.sh
• Login into Roundcube at http://localhost:9002/ with the user configured as IMAP_USER and the password configured as LOCAL_IMAP_PASSWORD
• If necessary the ./backup.data.sh script can be used to create a backup of the data folder