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I fear this for my gmail. I now use mbsync (lieer[0]) to have my emails synced locally on my homeserver, and then browse it with notmuch[1]. It's an incredibly
by tetris11 3y ago
I fear this for my gmail. I now use mbsync (lieer[0]) to have my emails synced locally on my homeserver, and then browse it with notmuch[1]. It's an incredibly freeing experience to have all your email on your own machine.
0: https://github.com/gauteh/lieer https://github.com/gauteh/lieer
1: https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/man1/notmuch.html https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/man1/notmuch.html
- girishso 3y agoFor the exact same reason I started using MacOS Mail app with gmail, but I am realising now that it doesn’t download “all” the emails unfortunately. Lieer looks like a good option, thank you.
- tetris11 3y agoIt's a great tool, it's just agonizingly slow sometimes because Google likes to throttle the connection when you make big changes. The initial download especially is slow, but the small changes thereafter are pretty fast.