Looks handy, although it only grabbed like the first 2 years of gmail for me, out of 20. Re-running the docker image did not help.
Command-Line Utility to Backup Google Mail, Calendar and Contacts to Files
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#12Does the .eml file preserve Gmail labels?
Does it handle the 'labels apply to messages not threads' problem?
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could attempt to get that 2fa removed by trying to sign in from a new device and following the steps to recover your account.
The issue isn't 2fa it's Google authenticator. When I log in from a new device lets me log in using my phone as 2fa but that is not an option for takeout -- only authenticator. I can find no way to remove it.
Google authenticator is a type of 2FA. They are saying that if you can figure out a way to remove 2FA from your account, then you can re-add it with the current authenticator app you have, which will allow you to use Takeout.
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#14got-your-back uses Gmail's API instead of IMAP with an insecure app password, which is a discouraged way of accessing Gmail and will eventually be phased out in favor of OAuth access tokens over IMAP (in fact, I thought it already had been).
As for other services beyond Gmail, there's not a great ecosystem for exporting.
For one-off exports, Google Takeout is decent enough, although there's a lacking ecosystem to import the big .mbox files back to an email provider.
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#16got-your-back uses Gmail's API instead of IMAP with an insecure app password, which is a discouraged way of accessing Gmail and will eventually be phased out in favor of OAuth access tokens over IMAP (in fact, I thought it already had been). As for other services beyond Gmail, there's not a great ecosystem for exporting. For one-off exports, Google Takeout is decent enough, although there's a lacking ecosystem to imp…
> insecure app password [...] and will eventually be phased out in favor of OAuth access tokens over IMAP
What's so "insecure" about "per-app passwords"?
I ask, because I've lost the past 5 years of my life to building and running an internet-facing OAuth2+OIDC IAM system and I'm (still) an active contributor back to the open-source OIDC framework it's built-on. I grok the grants and flows and I've got the blood-pressure to show for it (and developed a healthy opposition to SAML); but despite all of that, I appreciate simple solutions to problems where there's a very real risk of over-engineering - and especially when a simpler system (like per-app passwords) can make a system overall more secure because there will be less mistakes being made, even if some clinicaly-dry technical assessment mathematically proves the complex solution is more "secure" by some measure.
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> although there's a lacking ecosystem to import the big .mbox files back to an email provider.
Everyone I know (okay, just a handful of ("normal") people) who has done this ended-up converting the .mbox to a PST for Outlook and copied it over to any other machines they have; it's an archive mailbox after-all, so just put it in read-only mode and don't worry about data-synchronization issues.
Kinda ironic that Gmail's credibility was/is built on ex-Outlook users looking for something better, only for Outlook to be the refuge (and last resting place?) for hundred-gigabyte-sized e-mail archives.
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#17I prefer an executable file to node.js garbage even if I have a Docker. Does anybody have a ready-to-use alternative that is not written on JS?
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#18I prefer an executable file to node.js garbage even if I have a Docker. Does anybody have a ready-to-use alternative that is not written on JS?
What's the difference if you have Docker anyway?
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#19got-your-back uses Gmail's API instead of IMAP with an insecure app password, which is a discouraged way of accessing Gmail and will eventually be phased out in favor of OAuth access tokens over IMAP (in fact, I thought it already had been). As for other services beyond Gmail, there's not a great ecosystem for exporting. For one-off exports, Google Takeout is decent enough, although there's a lacking ecosystem to imp…
> insecure app password [...] and will eventually be phased out in favor of OAuth access tokens over IMAP What's so "insecure" about "per-app passwords"? I ask, because I've lost the past 5 years of my life to building and running an internet-facing OAuth2+OIDC IAM system and I'm (still) an active contributor back to the open-source OIDC framework it's built-on. I grok the grants and flows and I've got the blood-pres…
I need to supply a correction: apparently Outlook does not support opening PST files[1] that are protected as read-only by the filesystem (which is both disappointing and alarming...).
[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/re...