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Does anyone have a comprehensive/good solution to how to move all your stuff out of Gmail? I use Thunderbird + IMAP to sync a local copy of my Gmail email ever
by Teckla 14y ago
Does anyone have a comprehensive/good solution to how to move all your stuff out of Gmail?
I use Thunderbird + IMAP to sync a local copy of my Gmail email every week or two.
It does not sync anything except your email, but even that much is pretty nice, for peace of mind.
- manaskarekar 14y agoI don't use email clients, so pardon me if this is elementary, but is there a good way to compress and archive downloaded emails with their attachments? Also, is the formatting (rtf) preserved?
- Teckla 14y agoI don't know the answer to your first question, but in response to your second question, yes, formatting is preserved.
- chimeracoder 14y agoTo answer your first question: It's certainly possible from a technical level, but I'm not aware of any end-user application that enables this functionality out-of-the-box. One hacky-but-straightforward way to do this would be to take advantage of an email<->filesystem translation like NMH or MBox, and then write some script that would automatically purge the attachments before archiving. You'd still have to download the attachments, I believe; I could be wrong, but I don't think IMAP will let you get around that easily. (To be fair, Gmail's implementation doesn't adhere to IMAP very well in my experience - labels/folders/tags are a major problem - so YMMV).
- qu4z-2 14y agoIf you're a technical sort, offlineimap is quite a good tool, although I don't think it compresses downloaded emails.