Does anyone know of an email provider in the free world that will accept the login creds of another ESP & fetch mail from the other account? Checked Danwin, Disroot, Cock.li, Tuta, Protonmail, Autistici, Riseup, mail2tor.. none of them seem to have it.

@m_svo @resist1984

I was going to suggest imapsync..
I use it for migrations between email providers for people often.

Given that you want to use Tor too.. I wonder if it would work with torsocks ?

@m_svo @resist1984 I haven't used torsocks for a while.. but my recollection is you just prefix what you want to do with it..

so

`torsocks imapsync ... `

@kat @m_svo I don't see how IMAPsync would solve this. I wouldn't run IMAPsync without Tor, and if I run it over Tor then Yandex blocks it. Yandex is dropping Tor packets, thus causing timeouts. So imapsync would have to be run by another ESP not myself. I seem to have my issue solved.

@resist1984 @kat
I'm not sure running imapsync.lamiral.info/X/ through Tor will cause Yandex to drop packets, as it would maybe get a request from the host in the web, not the client (your browser)?

@m_svo @kat ah, sorry I may have misunderstood how it works. I didn't realize imapsync.lamiral.info was a mitm. Normally an extra mitm is a bad idea, but perhaps useful in this case.

@resist1984 @m_svo it was just an idea. You understand your usecase and threat model best!

@kat @m_svo indeed I'll have to be the judge of whether it meets the security needs. But whether it's even feasible is unclear. The CLI does not seem to have an option to select a mitm, which means either lamiral.info is hard-coded, or it means there is no mitm (that I directly connect to the imap servers).

@resist1984 @m_svo

It's software you run... that makes an imap connection to each email server using imap and can pull the email from one end to the other... Lamiral.info is just where you get the software from. It might even be packaged for your Linux distro already.

There is no javascript or anythin else involved. it's software you run on your computer.

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@kat @m_svo It's clear that I have a choice between running installed software or using the website. You say no javascript needed, which implies that the web form must be sending that information to lamiral.info, which then must be acting as a service. In the absence of js, there would be no way to sync without the engine running on the website.

@resist1984 @m_svo I am sorry .. it was my mistake. I always just run the software on my computer. I didn't know that they website offered a service now. Apologies.

@m_svo @kat you might be righ about the software, but it's kind of up in the air whether the installable software talks to the IMAP servers, or it uses the web service through an API. Normally I would expect the software to not depend on the web service at lamiral.info, but when I see his prices i wonder if that prices in the cost of him maintaining a service.

@resist1984 @m_svo i don't believe it does. But you will have to convince yourself. It's Free software

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