Trouble pulling down all mail from Outlook.com IMAP? about imap2maildir

[rtucker]

Technically speaking, [Gmail]/All Mail is documented as the default for
the --remote-folder option, but I agree it's not entirely clear.  :-)
Alas, I'm travelling and don't have the creds to update this right now.
(Pull request will be gladly accepted once I'm back home.)

I hadn't considered the multiple folder enumeration case.  Gmail has the
All Mail folder, which -- as the name implies -- gets all the mail.
I've since moved on to Fastmail, which doesn't have the All Mail but
instead has an Archive folder for disposed mail.  This is what I
currently point imap2maildir at.

So there's a couple approaches I see:

1. The Naive Approach: do open_mailbox_*, open_sql_session, and
   copy_messages_by_folder for each folder.  This will create unique
   maildirs and SQL caches for each folder.  This would be quick and
   easy to implement, but might not be ideal for high-churn mailboxes
   like INBOX, or cases where messages are moved between folders.

2. The Smarter Approach: use one local mailbox and SQL session for all
   the folders, and tag each message with the folder it came from (and
   update the tags on future runs, if the message moves).  I think this
   would be pretty efficient, because it wouldn't have to
   download/store messages repeatedly, but it would take some thought
   and effort to get right.

Depending on your application, the Naive Approach might be good enough.
Thoughts/comments?  -rt

On Thu, May 5, 2016, at 00:25, Victor Hooi wrote:

It seems that by default, we assume the IMAP account is Gmail:

Opening sqlite3 database
'/Users/victorhooi/Documents/melmail/.imap2maildir.sqlite' Exception!
Clearing locks and safing database. Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./imap2maildir", line 577, in main seencache=seencache) File
"./imap2maildir", line 464, in copy_messages_by_folder
outdict['total'] = len(folder) File
"/Users/victorhooi/code/imap2maildir/simpleimap.py", line 390, in
len raise Exception('folder %s: %s' % (self.folder, data[0]))
Exception: folder [Gmail]/All Mail: [TRYCREATE] Specified mailbox does
not exist. Traceback (most recent call last): File "./imap2maildir",
line 596, in main() File "./imap2maildir", line 577, in main
seencache=seencache) File "./imap2maildir", line 464, in
copy_messages_by_folder outdict['total'] = len(folder) File
"/Users/victorhooi/code/imap2maildir/simpleimap.py", line 390, in
__len raise Exception('folder %s: %s' % (self.__folder, data[0]))
Exception: folder [Gmail]/All Mail: [TRYCREATE] Specified mailbox does
not exist.

This should probably be documented somewhere in the README.
In my case, I'm trying to pull down an Outlook.com address - I can use
--remote-folder="FOLDER" to pull down specific folders, but there
doesn't seem to be any way to pull down all folders and email?
Is it possible to enable imap2maildir to enumerate all folders from
the root, and pull them down? This seems like it might be a useful
feature. Apologies if I'm somehow missed it.
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