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

Archiver

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 archiver.py

Viewer

1. sudo mkdir /etc/secrets
2. sudo chown -R root:root /etc/secrets
3. Generate your password:

   echo -n "<your password>" | base64
   

4. Edit /etc/secrets/imapviewer with this content:

   HTTP_AUTH_PASS=<your encoded password>
   EMAIL_ARCHIVE_ROOT=<archive root path>
   

5. sudo chmod 600 /etc/secrets/imapviewer
6. Reload and start the service.

Sample systemd services file is included.

To Do

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