Comments on rectalogic: Automated gmail backup via IMAP

There are five basic functions that we all need to...

2011-12-05T00:57:03.130-05:00

There are five basic functions that we all need to perform in order to manage and safeguard our email- backup, restore, archive, transfer and organize the data. Beyond Inbox can help you perform all of these in a very efficient and easy way. http://www.beyondinbox.com/documentation/mail-backup--email-backup-for-disaster-and-recovery.html

I thought these instructions were quite helpful. I...

2009-05-01T13:23:00.000-04:00

I 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 here.

Check out this tool: Gmail Keeper, you see how eas...

2009-04-30T04:15:00.000-04:00

Check out this tool: Gmail Keeper, you see how easy it is to backup your emails and labels automatically.

I've written a python script for getmail4 that pre...

2009-01-07T11:43:00.000-05:00

I'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!
http://daylightpirates.org/index.php/Programs/ImapGrab

Useful, thanks!

Regarding "Error: UIDVALIDI...

2008-12-05T14:30:00.000-05:00

Useful, thanks!

Regarding "Error: UIDVALIDITY of slave changed"

I got that same issue; but only on the second account I setup. First I tried it with a throw away account.

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.

I susupect that even if you always invoke it with a --config it still creates and reads the .mbsyncrc file.

Thanks for pointing me to mbsync. I had to apply <...

2008-09-01T14:11:00.000-04:00

Thanks for pointing me to mbsync. I had to apply a few tweaks to mbsync to get it to synchronize my labels (recursively) as well, but it's all working great for me now.

interesting .. how about google apps ?

I ge...

2008-06-15T10:30:00.000-04:00

interesting .. how about google apps ?

I get this error.

Channel backup
Selecting slave gmail... 0 messages, 0 recent
Error: UIDVALIDITY of slave changed

First, thanks very much for this! I've been reall...

2008-02-07T02:50:00.000-05:00

First, thanks very much for this! I've been really meaning to backup my gmail account and now it's working great!

Some small adjustments I needed to make in order to get this to work:
- create the ~/Library/LaunchAgents directory (otherwise the symlink will be to the directory name, not within it)

- in com.rectalogic.gmail.backup.plist, change ~/Backup/gmail/backup-gmail to /Users/USERNAME/Backup/gmail/backup-gmail

- create the ~/Backup/gmail/maildir directory

Whoa, awesome post. I can't wait to give this a w...

2008-01-25T14:20:00.000-05:00

Whoa, awesome post. I can't wait to give this a whirl later tonight.