single-backup.md

Direct Config-less Backup

This command is an alternative to the imap-backup backup command. It lets you back up a single email account without relying on a configuration file.

To do so, you pass all the relevant settings as command-line parameters.

For example

imap-backup single backup --email me@example.com --password mysecret --server imap.example.com

As putting your password in a command line is obviously problematic for security reasons, there are alternatives to the --password parameter, see imap-backup help single backup for a full list of parameters.