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by dredmorbius 5185 days ago
Better: fetchmail and/or offlineimap, stored to a real mail storage format, preferably maildir.

Available on all sane platforms. Linux distros natively, Mac OS X (you might need to go to DarwinPorts for the software), and Windows (via Cygwin).

Note with offlineimap, changes on the server (e.g.: mail deletions) will be reflected on your local archive when re-synched. If your goal is archival, you'll want to copy the local mail you want to save permanently elsewhere.