Imapsync - Installation and use

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

- I'm not amazingly skilled when it comes to Linux but I'm working through installing and testing #imapsync - imapsync.lamiral.info on Debian following these instructions imapsync.lamiral.info/INSTALL.… - I'm a bit confused as it talks about example config files in a configuration directory but being a bit of a dunce I'm not sure where these would have been installed and where I should be creating config files for imapsync. My objective is to eventually sync my Gmail across to another email account I have via IMAP.

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Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Usually config directories and file are found in /etc. I guess there’s a /etc/imapsync/imapsync.conf
If there isn’t then the conf-file(s) should be somewhere in the /home directory.

Try the man page if one exists. That one should explain everything: man imapsync

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- abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  @Krik Yeah no man page and /etc/imapsync doesn't exist - I've also had a look at the documentation on the site (imapsync.lamiral.info/ but the documentation feels a bit free form - I mean Hey its free software I don't expect anything - I have managed to get it running using the example config I found on the site and just creating a folder in a subdirectory of my ~/ and seem to be making some progress with some dry runs. I'm actually hoping to move emails into my email account running on #yunohost.
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Socket462@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Imapsync is a (PERL?) script you download, and then run it passing parameters.

If you need OAuth, and it seems so since you want to sync a Google account, you have to download some more files that help you obtain an access token for Gmail.

But as far as I remember, there are no config files needed to run it. Infact I am cron running it every 5 minutes to one way sync an IMAP account to Office365 (needs an OAuth token too, and a second script to refresh the token every hour)

Feel free to ask for more, but I cannot guarantee a timely response.

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- abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  @Socket462 Thanks yeah. I think you are right. I have managed to have some success with extracting emails from #Gmail using #imapsync. I've done a couple of test runs but think that I have an issue with labels (basically I end up with emails in the All Mail folder but not in Sent or Inbox ) so I think I need to look at the options a bit.
  Where should I / would you keep scripts that I create to run either one off or on a regular basis ? Should I create a folder in /etc/imapsync ? I have never really understood the folder structure of Linux despite trying to read up on it a few times.
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  - Socket462@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You can remap IMAP source folder to destination folder. It’s very likely that sent folder needs to be remapped between different hosts. I suggest you to use the dry-run option and examine the log to see if the folders are correctly mapped.
    
    More in detail, I created an user just to run imapsync as a good practice in Linux. Then downloaded imapsync in a subfolder of the user home directory, created two very simple scripts, one with the imapsync command with all the parameters I needed and one for the token. Lastly, using crontab -e, I added two entry one for each script.
    
    You don’t need to put imapsync into etc, it is not a binary and, as far as I know, there is no package that you can install with a package manager, it’s just a script that you download and execute. Anyway, where you put that, its up to you.
    
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