IMAP URLs

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Fri Aug 29 12:21:28 EDT 2008


The uw-imap project had a set of tools that would pull files from an imap
server to a local store (standard(???) mbox?).  Once there, MH has tools.

fetchmail can pull from an imap server too.  You could use procmail to
create your MH folders.

The big if here is working with Exchange :-)

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Michael ODonnell <
michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:

>
>
> I just noticed that for any of my email folders Thunderbird will
> report an URL of the form:
>
>   imap://userName@serverName/pathName
>
> ...and I wonder if there's a Linux tool like wget that I can use
> to pull email folders and such from an Exchange server, hopefully
> into a local hierarchy whose layout reflects that of the Exchange
> server's and, ideally (I can dream!) one file per msg, MH-style.
>
> I've found general info like this:
>
>   http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/html/rfc2192.html
>
> ...but haven't yet found a Linux tool suitable for the task.
>
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