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Imapsync - Installation and use (friendica.ginestes.es)
submitted 4 weeks ago by abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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- 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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[-] Socket462@feddit.it 0 points 4 weeks 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.

[-] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 0 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] Socket462@feddit.it 0 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 3 weeks ago

@Socket462 Yeah I did some dry runs and the folders maoped but I think its something about the labels .. Ill dig further.

That info about running via cron is really useful.

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