Beyond Inbox Commander: A Command Line Tool to Facilitate the Backup of email through Commander .
Beyond Inbox Commander is a command line tool to run the backup process of email through commander. It helps you to Schedule and Automate backup feature. Automation for Beyond Inbox means that scheduled operations will be carried on automatically as per configured action through scheduler. You can create the configuration file manually for taking backup of email and sending report of Backup process. When your backup process is completed, the report will be sent to the specified email account in formatted manner.
Activate Beyond Inbox Commander-
In order to run commander for processing you must activate it. Activation require valid email id and activation key. Follow steps described at page-
how to activate Beyond Inbox Commander
.
How to configure manually for backup email-
After activating commander, open BeyondInbox.xml from config folder, you will find it with default tags-
Follow steps to configure it for backup operation, update following configurations-
<ImapConfig DisplayName=
"imapprofilename"
Name="
UniqueName
">- Enter a name by which you can access this profile in place of
imapprofilename
.
<EmailId>
example@example.com
</EmailId> - Enter your email id in place of
example@example.com
, you can give email account of Gmail, AOL, or Gmx mail server.
<Password>
PlainText:Password
</Password> and <CommanderPwd>
PlainText:Password
</CommanderPwd>- Provide the password of email id in place of
Password
text, leave
PlainText:
as it is.
<ImapServer>
example.imapserver.com
</ImapServer> - Enter your IMAP server.
For Gmail-
imap.gmail.com
, for AOL-
imap.aol.com
, for GMX-
imap.gmx.com
.
Leave other tags of ImapConfig as it is.
Follow steps for sending summary of backup operations to email account-
<SMTPServerConfig DisplayName=
"smtpprofilename"
Name="
UniqueName
" Status=
"ON"
> - Enter a name by which you can access this profile in place of
smtpprofilename
.
<From>
example@example.com
</From> - Enter your email id in place of
example@example.com from which you want to send status mail.
<Password>
PlainText:Password
</Password> - Enter the password of email id in place of
Password
text, leave
PlainText:
as it is.
<Port>
25
/Port> - Enter port number of you mail server in place of
25
.
<To>
example1@example.com
</To> <Cc>
example2@example.com
</Cc> <Bcc>
example3@example.com
</Bcc> - Enter email ids in To, Cc, Bcc tag whom to you want to send backup report.
<ServerName>
example.server.com
</ServerName> - Enter your SMTP server for Gmail enter-
smtp.gmail.com
.
Now save your configuration and close it.
Commands to run backup with commander-
Windows OS -
BeyondInboxCommander.exe -action:backup -imapprofilename:
<Profile DisplayName save in any IMAP configuration>
[-emailprofile:
<Profile Name save in any SMTPServer configuration>
]
Linux OS -
sh BeyondInboxCommander-jre.sh -action:backup -imapprofilename:
<Profile DisplayName save in any IMAP configuration>
[-emailprofile:
<Profile Name save in any SMTPServer configuration>
]
Mac OS -
java -jar BeyondInboxCommander.jar -action:backup -imapprofilename:
<Profile DisplayName save in any IMAP configuration>
[-emailprofile:
<Profile Name save in any SMTPServer configuration>
]
NOTE:
You can create
multiple Imap profiles
to take backup using beyond Inbox Commander.
Steps to create
multiple Imap profiles:
- Copy-Paste complete
<ImapConfig-.... >........ </
ImapConfig
> tag.
- Give unique
DisplayName
and
Name
for it.
- Fill your details like Email, Password, Imapserver etc for backup.
On Linux you can open terminal from
Applications >> Accessories >> Terminal.
To get the report of complete backup operation you need to specify
–emailprofile
as its third argument. It is an optional argument.
Advantages with Beyond Inbox Commander:
Scheduled & Automated Backup. With Beyond Inbox Commander you don't even need to start your backup process manually. You just need to schedule it with specific Imap Profile and commander will start it automatically on scheduled time.
Send backup report through mail after completion of backup. Best thing is that you get a mail, giving the report of your scheduled backup.
