Backing up Gmail with Thunderbird to mbox, how?
Nicholas
saunders.nicholas at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 08:56:19 UTC 2023
What I've done for now is login to Gmail with Alpine, which allows me to
export e-mails by appending to a file. It's somewhat awkward, but, on
the plus side, works. Creates a mbox file which can be read in by
Alpine or even mailutils.
Why mailutils cannot parse the mbox file created from Thunderbird is one
for the ages.
-Nick
On 2023-11-27 21:03, Nicholas wrote:
> I would expect this to be well documented and fairly straightforward.
> I'm using the plugin:
>
> https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/
>
>
> and just clicking a folder to export to an mbox file. It's just not
> readable with mailutils. Downloading a sample mbox works fine. So
> that implies that the "mail" command is working at least well enough
> to read an arbitrary mbox file. Perhaps this Thunderbird file is odd
> in some way? That would seem unusual, as Thunderbird is quite
> mainstream, Gmail is very mainstream, and this is a widely used backup
> tool. So that suggests that I'm not exporting "correctly" somehow.
> But what specifically can be done differently is a mystery.
>
> Has anyone had success, or failure, with backing up Gmail? Did you
> use Thunderbird, or some other tool? Any specific experience with
> this export tool?
>
>
>
> see also:
>
> https://askubuntu.com/q/1494163/847449
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>
> thanks,
>
>
> Nick
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