[kwlug-disc] How to Archiving Gmail Locally

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Reading a bit more on this, mutt may not understand a directory sorted by
yyyy/mm.

So I started mutt giving it the MailDir that I saved Gmail to, like so:

mutt -f ~/mail/gmail

That directory is the one that contains the cur, new and tmp dirs.

Loading is slow, at 1,778 msg/second, so my total messages of 459,000 takes
several minutes to load.

But it is fast from there, probably because it caches headers or something.

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> The FAQ says that the state is kept in the oldmail-* files under
> ~/.getmail.
>
> So it seems to me that it is safe to move the messages themselves.
>
> I will try it out.
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Giles.
>>
>> So, if getmail is using IMAP for retrieval, and copies individual
>> messages to the MailDir directory, then I move some files (i.e. messages)
>> from cur to another directory, say 2007/06.
>>
>> Will getmail be confused by that?
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Giles Malet <gdmalet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In the directory ~/mail/gmail, the script will create subdirectories
>>>> called
>>>> 'cur', 'tmp', and 'new'.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is standard 'Maildir' format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir).
>>> Some mail clients, such as mutt, support it directly; there's a list on the
>>> Wikipedia page.
>>>
>>> g
>>>
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> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
> 2bits.com, Inc.
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2bits.com, Inc.
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