Archiving IMAP email

[Marcos Toro Oyarzo]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Andy <stude.list at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have an email account that is accessible via IMAP and is due to be
> "expired" in a couple of weeks. I would like to be able to download all
> the email I have on the server and save it to my desktop so I can access
> me old emails.
>
> Anyone know a good way of doing this? (I'm using Ubuntu 6.06LTS currently)
>
> I have looked at a couple of articles about doing this with Thunderbird
> but my email ends up in mbox files and Thunderbird refuses to open them
> again.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
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offlineimap+courier-imap is the solution

read this http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-57157.html

regards,

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