Sorry, but is POP3 not available? Change to POP3 and you have your backup.
regards Karsten Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2015, 10:29 +0000 schrieb Pete Biggs: > > > > I tried offlineimap, and it clearly downloaded all messages from all my > > accounts. It seems a much better way of making backups. > > Evolution is a mail client, it's not designed to make backups of your > remote mail - being able to download and make local copies of messages > is only for convenience of access to messages when you are off-line. > > > Evolution > > doesn't give me the same feeling of control over data. That's a pity, > > because I have GNOME as my desktop environment of choice and Evolution > > is well integrated in it. With webmail I also don't receive > > notifications when a message arrives. > > You don't have to give up Evolution. The purpose of OfflineIMAP is not > for backing up emails, it's to provide a local synchronised repository > of mail that in reality resides on an IMAP server. The fact that it > makes it easy to then backup your email locally is a by-product. > > Evolution can read the OfflineIMAP mail store (it's in Maildir format), > so point Evolution at that repository and just use it as normal. > Changes to the local store are synchronised back to the IMAP server. > > See the OfflineIMAP web pages (http://offlineimap.org/) for more > details. > > P. > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
