tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090046.post9036663649306703661..comments2010-03-08T10:12:39.382-05:00rectalogicnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090046.post-90085381516446784382009-05-01T13:23:00.000-04:002009-05-01T13:23:00.000-04:00I thought these instructions were quite helpful. I tweaked them a bit to get an mbsync setup working on my home Ubuntu install. I also have a patch to support recursive label traversal. The steps I went through are <A HREF="http://www.chrisstreeter.com/archive/2009/04/305/gmail-imap-backup-with-mbsync-on-ubuntu" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Streeterhttp://www.chrisstreeter.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090046.post-79634191436260093082009-04-30T04:15:00.000-04:002009-04-30T04:15:00.000-04:00Check out this tool: Gmail Keeper, you see how easy it is to backup your emails and labels automatically.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090046.post-63436972065974522622009-01-07T11:43:00.000-05:002009-01-07T11:43:00.000-05:00I've written a python script for getmail4 that pretty much does the same thing. It's called ImapGrab, and it can be used for any IMAP server. I also added a special option for Gmail. Enjoy!<BR/>http://daylightpirates.org/index.php/Programs/ImapGrabdiafygihttps://launchpad.net/~diafyginoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090046.post-35744247677077986932008-12-05T14:30:00.000-05:002008-12-05T14:30:00.000-05:00Useful, thanks!<BR/><BR/>Regarding "Error: UIDVALIDITY of slave changed"<BR/><BR/>I got that same issue; but only on the second account I setup. First I tried it with a throw away account.<BR/><BR/>I resolved the problem. Having discovered that somebody, certainly not me, had created a ~/.mbsyncrc file I deleted that and my real account worked out.<BR/><BR/>I susupect that even if you always invoke it with a --config it still creates and reads the .mbsyncrc file.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090046.post-44576557651857850392008-09-01T14:11:00.000-04:002008-09-01T14:11:00.000-04:00Thanks for pointing me to mbsync. I had to apply <A HREF="http://el-tramo.be/blog/gmail-mbsync" REL="nofollow">a few tweaks</A> to mbsync to get it to synchronize my labels (recursively) as well, but it's all working great for me now.Remko Tronçonhttp://el-tramo.benoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090046.post-57054556873749453342008-06-15T10:30:00.000-04:002008-06-15T10:30:00.000-04:00interesting .. how about google apps ?<BR/><BR/>I get this error.<BR/><BR/>Channel backup<BR/>Selecting slave gmail... 0 messages, 0 recent<BR/>Error: UIDVALIDITY of slave changeddexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12767438541530462242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090046.post-50429151576506284612008-02-07T02:50:00.000-05:002008-02-07T02:50:00.000-05:00First, thanks very much for this! I've been really meaning to backup my gmail account and now it's working great!<BR/><BR/>Some small adjustments I needed to make in order to get this to work:<BR/> - create the ~/Library/LaunchAgents directory (otherwise the symlink will be to the directory name, not within it)<BR/><BR/> - in com.rectalogic.gmail.backup.plist, change ~/Backup/gmail/backup-gmail to /Users/USERNAME/Backup/gmail/backup-gmail<BR/><BR/> - create the ~/Backup/gmail/maildir directorybrian dollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11287564219374596261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090046.post-23523601235481151192008-01-25T14:20:00.000-05:002008-01-25T14:20:00.000-05:00Whoa, awesome post. I can't wait to give this a whirl later tonight.Brandonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10123846066336608043noreply@blogger.com