Listening to the Linux Action Show podcast, I heard about a Python script to backup e-mails from IMAP accounts that downloads messages and attachments and offers everything on a nice local HTML page.
The script is called NoPriv.py
and can be found on this page and on this Github repository. Given an IMAP e-mail account and a list of folders to be copied, it creates the HTML files structure to access the messages as shown in this demo page. The backup can be made incrementally, transfering only the new messages each time the script is run.