Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

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Post by uptown » Thu, Dec 05, 2013, 4:15 PM UTC

Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
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Post by umami » Thu, Dec 05, 2013, 4:39 PM UTC

Which would be the alternatives that allow to import an MBOX archive? I am not familiar with email storage.

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Post by corywright » Thu, Dec 05, 2013, 4:43 PM UTC

Maildir please.

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Post by dangrossman » Thu, Dec 05, 2013, 4:44 PM UTC

umami wrote: post #2

Which would be the alternatives that allow to import an MBOX archive? I am not familiar with email storage.

Probably most desktop clients. You can import an MBOX file to Thunderbird with the ImportExportTools extension (which Mozilla links from their KB):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexp...

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Post by ISL » Thu, Dec 05, 2013, 4:44 PM UTC

Thank you, Google.

Glad to hear that the Data Liberation Front is alive and well: http://www.dataliberation.org/

From 2006: "We would never trap user data," he [Schmidt] said.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-we-wou...

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Post by Robin_Message » Thu, Dec 05, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

corywright wrote: post #3

Maildir please.

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat might help

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Post by nandhp » Thu, Dec 05, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

umami wrote: post #2

Which would be the alternatives that allow to import an MBOX archive? I am not familiar with email storage.

Many desktop mail clients support mbox format. Thunderbird uses mbox. There's also a script (I'm sure there are many scripts that do this) that take mbox files and upload the mail to an IMAP server. (http://imap-upload.sourceforge.net/)

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Post by sksk » Thu, Dec 05, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

umami wrote: post #2

Which would be the alternatives that allow to import an MBOX archive? I am not familiar with email storage.

Mac Mail.app can import mbox files but the default storage is emlx if I remember correctly for Spotlight indexing.

Thunderbird should also import mbox

I am a bit paranoid about my Gmail account so I use the Mail.app to download the emails and then I back it up. If my account gets locked for whatever reason, 'Download Data' option is not going to exist. So better to backup through other means as well.

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Post by nandhp » Thu, Dec 05, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

I wonder if it does a better job of handling message duplication than Gmaill IMAP does.

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Post by ajross » Thu, Dec 05, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

umami wrote: post #2

Which would be the alternatives that allow to import an MBOX archive? I am not familiar with email storage.

Virtually everything supports MBOX (which, modulo a few gotchas, is just a concatenated file of the text-formatted RFC822 messages as they went over the wire). Most mail clients support it. Many mail servers do to, so for example you could drop this into /var/spool/mail on a AWS instance, run a default dovecot install, and hit the server with any IMAP client.