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An account hosted by an email provider is nearing the limit of its quota (20GB). I want to fetch all but the last 6 months' worth of email, removing it from the server. IMAP is currently used to retrieve and check for email, but the server is also accessible via POP.
I've been told that fetchmail would be a good way to go about this, but how could I retrieve only a fraction of the used quota using said application? By fraction, I mean all mail within a certain range of dates.
chb
Posted 2017-10-18T11:39:11.260
Reputation: 380
Many email clients have the option to in addition to IMAP folders create a local data file to store your email and you can then in your mail client select move/copy messages as desired and subsequently delete them from your imap account, https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-an-Outlook-Data-File-pst-to-save-your-information-17a13ca2-df52-48e8-b933-4c84c2aabe7c
– HBruijn – 2017-10-18T12:18:28.523@HBruijn Sorry, just realized that my use of the word manually in the title might have been misleading. I'm not the user in question and do not want to setup an MUA (neither locally nor on a server) to accomplish what, to my mind, should be done programmatically. Also, why did you migrate this? I would have thought that email administration fit as a topic on Server Fault. – chb – 2017-10-18T12:30:59.090