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Yep! All messages are in a single mbox file and it's 3.2GB. cdubz@professor-farnsworth ~/data $ du -h Mail-chris.mbox 3.2G Mail-chris.mbox

• dmd 10y ago
  Wow. I stand corrected and that's awful. Yet another reason to use gmvault!
  • icebraining 10y ago
    Why it awful? As an archive, seems decent.
    • dmd 10y ago
      (1) inconsistent escaping rules (dealing with the literal string \nFrom) (2) easy to corrupt
      • creeble 10y ago
        Worth noting that Google provides some Python sample code for parsing the file which works great.
        • cdubzzz 10y ago
          Interesting - could you point out where to find this? I poked around a bit but didn't come up with anything.