Mail Sync

CLI tool to synchronize emails between Source and Destination servers over secure port tcp/993 (IMAP over TLS).

Parameters

• Config File (-c or --config): Path to Configuration File
• Verbosity (-v or --verbose): Output DEBUG Logs
• Quiet (-q or --quiet): No Output
• Help (-h or --help): Show Help Menu
• Version (-V or --version): Show Version

Commands

• list: List Source Mailboxes
• sync: Synchronize Mailboxes
• help: Show Help Message

Usage

1. Create a basic creds.conf file

[src]
host="mail.example.com"
user="test@example.com"
password="MyMailPassword"

[dst]
host="mail2.example.com"
user="test2@example.com"
password="MyMail2Password"

2. Execute list command to list source mailboxes

mail_sync -c creds.conf list

3. (Optional) Modify src section on creds.conf to filter certain mailboxes with include & exclude keywords. This specific example syncs all (*) mailboxes but INBOX,Sent & Trash, which are ignored.

[src]
host="mail.example.com"
user="test@example.com"
password="MyMailPassword"
include="*"
exclude="INBOX,Sent,Trash"

[dst]
host="mail2.example.com"
user="test2@example.com"
password="MyMail2Password"

4. Execute sync command to synchronize mailboxes

mail_sync -c creds.conf sync

Installation

Download pre-built Binaries

1. Visit Release page
2. Download pre-built binary based on your platform:
   • Windows (mail_sync.exe)
   • Linux AMD64 (mail_sync_amd64)
   • MacOS (mail_sync_darwin)

Build from Source

Requirements

• Cargo - Rust Build System

Steps

1. Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/pcs289/mail_sync.git

2. Compile source code

cd mail_sync
cargo build --release