imaptar

imaptar is a utility to dump an entire IMAP-mailbox, INBOX and all folders, in maildir format to a tar file.

Usage

Usage: imaptar <flags>

Flags:
    -s, --server <name>   IMAPS server name
    -u, --user <name>     username
    -t, --tar <file>      tar output filename

Optional flags:
    -p, --port <port>     IMAPS server port (default 993)
    -P, --pass <pass>     password
    -E, --envpass VAR     get password from environment var $VAR
    -z, --gzip            compress the output

If you do not supply the -P or -E option, you will be prompted for the password.

Example

To run imaptar and write a .tgz file to a local backup directory:

export IMAPPASS="foo"
docker run -ti --rm -e IMAPPASS -v $PWD/backup:/backup mpepping/imaptar \
  -s imap.xs4all.nl -u myuser -E IMAPPASS -z -t /backup/maildir.tar.gz

BUGS

Only works on IMAP servers where "/" is the folder seperator.

References

• https://github.com/XS4ALL/imaptar/
• https://hub.docker.com/mpepping/imaptar
• https://github.com/mpepping/docker-imaptar