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Recommend IMAPSync: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ Have used it at pretty massive scale and it handles a hell of a lot of different options.
This one... and I used it to migrate 20 years of email from a G Suite account to Gmail account. https://medium.com/@buro9/one-account-all-of-google-4d292906...
I never was able to backup emails from gmail successfully ~ 10GB of mails right now. Everytime it fails somewhere in between because of reasons mentioned by various people elsewhere in this thread. Every year I try and fail. This year with the comments herein I again tried and get invalid credentials error with my Gmail. 1) Used mutt/getmail/python script ( password is correct verified it ) 2) Even changed password a…
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This one... and I used it to migrate 20 years of email from a G Suite account to Gmail account. https://medium.com/@buro9/one-account-all-of-google-4d292906...
You freaked me out with the 20 years - I didn't think it'd been _quite_ that long. 2006 as "Google Apps for Your Domain", in case anyone else is wondering.
I made a separate thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23425995
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That is also 18+ gb of my life.
wait, you use work email for personal stuff??
I mean: my colleagues and I faced countless issues, we had both problems and celebrations, and I want to be able to remember all of that in the future.
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I tried this recently for moving from outlook.com to mailbox.org and it was painfully slow. Because it fetched every message individually, it would get throttled at about 10 messages/second. I wrote my own thing using IMAPclient in python and it was a hundred times quicker.
I have moved more than 2000 mailboxes with over a terabyte of data with it. Worked well for me.
I never was able to backup emails from gmail successfully ~ 10GB of mails right now. Everytime it fails somewhere in between because of reasons mentioned by various people elsewhere in this thread. Every year I try and fail. This year with the comments herein I again tried and get invalid credentials error with my Gmail. 1) Used mutt/getmail/python script ( password is correct verified it ) 2) Even changed password a…
If any Googler is reading this, why oh why is muting not part of the API?
Recommend IMAPSync: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ Have used it at pretty massive scale and it handles a hell of a lot of different options.
...telnet to the same host:port on same machine works fine.
Its the reason that I still use POP. Full stop.
Same here. Happy POP user for decades. How do you deal with accessing mail from multiple devices and when away from your main machine tho?
The fact that they are marked as unread from other machines is a pain, but not insuperable.