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Another option is to keep a local mirror of your gmail, this can be one or two way and with or without tags. https://github.com/gauteh/gmailieer https://github
by donio 8y ago
Another option is to keep a local mirror of your gmail, this can be one or two way and with or without tags.
https://github.com/gauteh/gmailieer https://github.com/gauteh/gmailieer and http://isync.sourceforge.net/ http://isync.sourceforge.net/ are tools I've used for this. isync/mbsync is a high performance IMAP based syncing tool that works well with for large mail spools. gmailieer uses the gmail API so it only works with gmail but has good support for two-way tag syncing.
Some advantages of this approach are very fast local access and and the ability to use your preferred local indexing and tagging tools (notmuch under emacs in my case).
PS, I forgot that gmailieer is notmuch-only but I think some mutt users use notmuch for indexing so it could still be useful.
- alacombe 8y agoI've had a lot of bad luck with isync. Gmail keeps locking IMAPS access, even if "insecure app access" is enabled. When trying to access the account through thunderbird, it redirects to an online login page to authorize the app, presumably through Google auth service to get an access token. I'm not sure it can be worked-around without implementing the same logic in isync :-( edit: using the trick in the page seems to have done the worked. It would seem that my account access got locked during my last attempt. Time to run some backup !
- rauhl 8y agoI've used OfflineIMAP[0] for this sort of thing successfully, but gmailieer & isync do sound interesting — particularly the ‘high performance’ bit about the latter. OfflineIMAP is not exactly a speed demon. 0: http://www.offlineimap.org/ http://www.offlineimap.org/