Re: OfflineIMAP for backups

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Mika Fischer wrote:

> I would like to create a local backup of an IMAP account. While
> OfflineIMAP can sync just fine I am a bit worried that an accidental
> deletion of one or more mails in the backup might destroy the
> originals as well.

What I'm doing for this is to just back up the email files (which for me 
are stored in Maildir format) with a standard incremental backup tool, 
which for me is dirvish.

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