imap-archiver/README.md

imap-archiver

Archive the content on your email account.

A very simple way to sync your email account with the goal of backing up all your emails.

Saves attachments to disk and stores the emails in an SQLite database.

A very simple web viewer is provided to view your raw emails.

Does not support different accounts.

Install

1. Create a venv
2. pip install -r requirements.txt
3. cp config.yml.sample config.yml
4. Edit config.yml and configure your login info.
5. python3 run.py

A sample systemd service file is included.

To Do

• Fix subject decoding. Some character sets aren't detected correctly.
• Sync Gmail categories as folders.
• In the viewer, format the raw email to something viewable.