imapsync software is a command line tool allowing incremental and recursive imap transfers from one mailbox to another, both anywhere on the internet or in your local network.
imapsync is useful for imap account migration or imap account backup.
imapsync is not adequate for maintaining two active imap accounts in synchronization where the user plays independently on both sides. Use offlineimap (written by John Goerzen) for this purpose.
Gilles LAMIRAL
Email: gilles.lamiral@laposte.net
Good feedback is always welcome, bad feedback is often welcome.
A nice place to talk about imapsync is the public imapsync mailing-list (see below section Mailing-List).
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See ChangeLog to know what's new.
New features since previous release 1.383:
The next imapsync release should see:
The Perl imapsync source code will run anywhere a Perl interpreter can run: any Unix, Linux, Windows, or Mac OS operating system.
Buy latest imapsync Perl source code for 30 EUR
30 EUR is about 40 USD, no problem to pay in USD with paypal:
You will receive a download link in few minutes (contact me if the delay is over a couple of hours).
30 days money-back guarantee.
Struggle free from source code and Perl installation by
buying the latest win32 standalone imapsync.exe for 30 EUR
30 EUR is about 40 USD, no problem to pay in USD with paypal:
You will receive a download link in few minutes (contact me if the delay is over a couple of hours).
30 days money-back guarantee.
Read the INSTALL file to know how to install imapsync on your system.
The README file has many tips to understand imapsync and succeed in your migration or backup.
The FAQ file presents Frequently Asked Questions (and not so frequently asked ones).
The TODO file list what may be coded or done in the future.
See also the wanted section.
All the people I thank are in the CREDITS file.
What you can do with imapsync is listed in COPYING.
The public mailing-list may be the best way to get free support.
You can write to the mailing-list even if you're not subscribed to it.
In that case you will receive a confirmation message each time you post (to avoid spam).
To write on the mailing-list, the address is:
imapsync@linux-france.org
To subscribe, send a message to:
imapsync-subscribe@listes.linux-france.org
To unsubscribe, send a message to:
imapsync-unsubscribe@listes.linux-france.org
To contact the person in charge for the list:
imapsync-request@listes.linux-france.org
The list archives are available at
http://linux-france.org/prj/imapsync_list/
So consider that the list is public, anyone can see your post.
Use a pseudonym or do not post to
this list if you want to stay private.
Thank you for your participation to the imapsync mailing-list!
I code new features and fix bugs for free when I have time and when I find it useful.
If you really want a feature or a fix you can donate money and my next development time
will be to code it or fix it.
On february 2011: 1 EUR ~ 1.3 USD.
Some features and their time/money to be done evaluation:
| DONE | Feature | Time guessed | Time spent | Money received | Money needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Backup to files | 20 hours | 60 min | 0 $ | 800 $ |
| No | Efficient Gmail backup | 20 hours | 80 min | 0 $ | 800 $ |
| Yes | Add cache | 10 hours | 1310 min | 400 $ | 400 $ |
| Yes | Speedup 50% | 10 hours | 80 min | 10 $ | 400 $ |
| Yes | --delete2folders | 3 hours | 270 min | 90 $ | 0 $ |
| Yes | NTLM auth | 3 hours | 300 min | 15 $ | 150 $ |
| Yes | Win32 imapsync.exe | 8 hours | 520 min | 45 $ | 240 $ |
| Yes | Win32 bug fixes | various | 370 min | 100 $ | 85 $ |
| Yes | Fix capability changes | 1 hour | 80 min | 0 $ | 40 $ |
| Yes | Large mailbox --maxage | 4 hours | 270 min | 0 $ | 160 $ |
| Yes | dkimap support | 3 hours | 120 min | 0 $ | 120 $ |
| No | gratis from here | 4 hours | 0 min | 0 $ | 60000 $ |
Let's start with reported failure stories over the past (maybe new imapsync release can run successfully with them).
Now the long reported success stories list ([host1] means "source server", [host2] means "destination server"):
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