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I have thousands of emails between close friends in Gmail that I would like to preserve, but no convenient system exists for archiving them away from Google. H
by pronoiac 16y ago
I have thousands of emails between close friends in Gmail that I would like to preserve, but no convenient system exists for archiving them away from Google.
How about IMAP?
- moron4hire 16y agoTried it, volume is too large. Every client I've tried crashes before it can get everything, and there is still the issue of convenient storage format. I'll probably have to write my own archiver.
- jaymon 16y agoI wrote this a few years ago to archive my Gmail emails to text files (and the attachments to whatever they are). I haven't ran it in awhile but when I did it worked and was able to download my emails from the very beginning without crashing. Anyway, you might find it useful... http://github.com/Jaymon/Popbak http://github.com/Jaymon/Popbak
- svag 16y agoI have been using Zimbra Desktop as an email client, http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html, in my Mac in several GMail accounts with no problem. There are versions for Window and Linux.
- gwern 16y agoSo use getmail_fetch through the POP server; it downloads a few hundred at a time into a maildir format. Hard to get more convenient and storable than that (tar it up and gzip or 7zip it).