From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 13 13:22:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAA216A400 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:21:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB8F43D4C for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:21:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6DB5D00; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:21:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30099-07; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:21:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-129-91.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.129.91]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50EF15C28; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:21:57 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <441571F8.7090702@mac.com> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:22:00 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com" References: <44152AD0.2070803@yourdot-mail.com> In-Reply-To: <44152AD0.2070803@yourdot-mail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail backup solution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:22:00 -0000 Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com wrote: > I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server. > My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap > to backup automatically everyday. > But, I dont want that my server download repeated messages (because i > have thousands of emails...). > Someone has a solution? Your mail hosting provider should have working backups, although it is worth checking. Anyway, if you use IMAP to download the mailboxes, your locally cached copy of that information on a client machine could be backed up as well. It's not as useful as backing things up at the server side, but it would ensure that you still have copies of the important mail. Otherwise, simply export your mailboxes to a mbox file once a week or once a month or so and archive that separately. -- -Chuck