zhaofeng-shu33 / archivemail

Python scripts to archive your mails from server

Steps:

1. First you need to download mails using offlineimap with python2 interpreter.

../offlineimap/bin/offlineimap -f "Sent Items"

2. Then run python3 manipulate.py to generate readable mails in file systems. The manipulate.py only extracts plain text mail content from INBOX.

For specific directory, use

python3 manipulate.py --maildir_name Sent

3. Uploading to your private file storage server, for example oss:

ossutil64 cp -rf read oss://undergraduate/maildir/

Uploading to Baidu NetDisk is also a good choice.

Other uploading option

# compress first
tar -czvf read.tar.gz read/

You can also use mutt console client program to read the archived mail. That is mail -f /home/feng/imap-maildir/INBOX/