<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>email/archive_my_emails</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2025-08-06 12:48:13</date><authorinitials>crose</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2025-08-06 12:47:46</date><authorinitials>crose</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2025-05-03 09:30:07</date><authorinitials>crose</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2025-01-08 07:21:02</date><authorinitials>crose</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2021-11-15 16:55:18</date><authorinitials>crose</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2021-05-05 06:34:30</date><authorinitials>crose</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2021-05-05 06:34:22</date><authorinitials>crose</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2021-02-02 12:03:33</date><authorinitials>eseide</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2021-02-02 11:47:56</date><authorinitials>eseide</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2013-04-05 10:05:13</date><authorinitials>crose</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2013-04-05 09:05:30</date><authorinitials>crose</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2013-04-05 09:04:42</date><authorinitials>crose</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>How to archive my emails?</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Typically you do not have to archive your emails, because there is a backup system. Saving disk space (on the mail account) is also 'normally' not necessary. </para></listitem><listitem><para>If you leave the institute and you loose your IMATH and also the UZH email address, it might me necessary to make a copy of your mails. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Attention: copying emails is slow! Please be patient, check the log messages what's going on. </para></listitem><listitem><para>There is no 'one solution fits all'. </para></listitem></itemizedlist><section><title>Copy to a mail folder of a different email account (gmail, gmx , ..) - Via Thunderbird, Apple Mail, ...</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Quick and easy solution. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Drawback:  </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Not so stable if you have thousands of emails. </para></listitem><listitem><para>If you have subfolders: there is no recursive duplicating - you have to do it for every single folder. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist><para>Step by step: </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Setup any email client on your computer. F.e. 'Thunderbird' (<ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/"/>) or Apple Mail. <ulink url="https://wiki.math.uzh.ch/public/email/archive_my_emails/public/email#Configuring_an_Account">Configure</ulink> your IMATH Account. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Copy (duplicate!) all mails (mark all mails and choose 'copy') to </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>a) a local email folder (this becomes your archive/backup, which is stored on your local computer), or  </para></listitem><listitem><para>b) a second configured (a free email service like gmail, gmx, ...) email account. </para></listitem></itemizedlist><itemizedlist><listitem><para>In most applications, you have to copy/duplicate each folder separately (no recursive copy). </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Thunderbird: use importexporttools-ng</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Create a zip or mbox file(s) of your mails - <ulink url="https://wiki.math.uzh.ch/public/email/archive_my_emails/public/thunderbird#Import_.2F_Export_Mails:_importexporttools-ng">thunderbird#Import_.2F_Export_Mails:_importexporttools-ng</ulink> </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Via imapsync</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para><ulink url="https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync"/>. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Commandline tool - no GUI - compplicate to setup </para></listitem><listitem><para>Has to be installed locally. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Very flexible. </para></listitem><listitem><para>Copies Mail recursively. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section></section></article>