GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 713832
Local backup of mail
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:24:17 UTC
---- Reported by jim@yorba.org 2013-11-18 11:46:00 -0800 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 7702 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7702 Searchable id: yorba-bug-7702 Original author: Jim Nelson Original description: It's been requested on the mailing list that Geary backup (archive) mail locally and then remove it from the server, to reduce disk space on the server. Presumably this would also mean allowing the mail to be accessed and search as though it was present on the server and offering some way to push it back to the server (or a server) to restore it. This type of feature could easily get quite complicated and is probably beyond the scope of Geary. However, I could envision a simple version of this targeting users who need to conserve server disk space while also backing up old email -- a kind of mail spool for messages beyond a certain date. --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:23 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 7702 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7702 Unknown version " in product geary. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
That would be great, I've just discovered that I was lucky and I did not lose my mail: http://www.autistici.org/en/incident-20140920.html
In case someone is interested to know how to backup an IMAP account, I suggest using mbsync¹ (with a cron job or systemd service to sync automatically every day). It saves the emails in the maildir format. ¹ http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html
See also Bug 767658.
I know this is an old bug / feature requeest, but some method for offline archiving of emails is indeed an important feature that is missing in Geary!
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