[ale] keeping Evolution/Godaddy mailbox contents before they disappear?

[Alex Carver]

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?