Hello, On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: > I want to back up my gmail account mails to my local > debian box. Preferably something that can also save > gmail labels. I can setup squirrel mail to read-only > access the locally available email.
I use "offlineimap" for accessing my gmail account and other IMAP accounts. It is quite easy to setup. However, there are some problems that should be mentioned. The imap.gmail.com server converts each label into a new imap folder. Thus, each such folder is downloaded by offlineimap causing a mail with multiple labels to be downloaded many times. I don't know of any software that can work around this. If you want to automate the process then the configuration file for offlineimap must contain your gmail password which is not terribly secure. It would be nice if there was an interface that could use a keyring or gpg-agent or some other dynamic password store. The local store is maildir but I think this is a feature and not a problem! The nice thing is that the program is written in python so it may be possible to fix these things with some scripting! Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
