[ale] keeping Evolution/Godaddy mailbox contents before they disappear?
Neal Rhodes
neal at mnopltd.com
Mon Feb 11 16:09:30 EST 2019
Anyone used GreekGeeks.com? They are apparently offering $2.95/mo for
three years for basic website and email hosting.
Protonmail seems more interesting in encrypted mail than offering
plug-compatible IMAP access.
On Sat, 2019-01-19 at 19:53 -0500, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> +1 for protonmail.
>
>
> On January 19, 2019 1:04:55 PM EST, Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
>
> On 2019-01-19 09:57, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
>
> So, we have had the company email with Godaddy for lo these many years.
> Accessed through Evolution on Centos via IMAP, and on phones and tablets
> via IMAP also.
>
> This week a chipper bright young lady from Godaddy called to inform us
> cheerily that they will be moving all email to Office365, and by the
> way, doubling our price. Maybe by this weekend. Have a nice day.
> And no, their Office 365 server doesn't support IMAP, and Centos 6
> Evolution doesn't seem to support Exchange, but...
>
> So, maybe our email is going away this weekend, and maybe not. They
> may just leave me alone until April when my 5 years runs out and then
> kick me to the curb.
>
> I'm thinking that so long as I have READ every message in Evolution, it
> has downloaded my complete mailbox.
>
> Alternatively, does anyone know of a more brute-force Linux utility to
> Fer Sure download the complete email account via IMAP into a linux
> compatible mailbox format?
>
>
> Use one of the basic mail utilities like mutt. Set it up to open an
> IMAP folder then mark all messages and save them (marking is very fast,
> you can tag messages with wildcards so tag-* will tag everything).
> It'll save to mbox or maildir (whichever you choose) that you can use
> elsewhere.
>
>
>
> And any suggestions on no BS plain email hosting? Just need two
> mailboxes and a bunch of forwarding definitions. I REALLY do not want
> to go back to running my own Postfix server.
>
>
>
> Protonmail, Rackspace, Google?
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