[Alpine-info] Converting GMail to Mbox format

[Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info]

On 2025-04-22 21:27, via Alpine-info wrote:

> 

>> Does anyone have experience converting GMail to Mbox format that can 

>> be used by Alpine?

> 

> There are a number of ways to do this.

> 

> First, Alpine can directly connect to Gmail and read your Gmail mail 

> online, without any kind of mirroring or conversion.  This is thoroughly 

> documented on the Alpine website, and, for most folks, this is probably 

> the best option.

> 

> Second, you can use various tools to mirror your Gmail mail to a local 

> machine, and then Alpine can read the mail from the local copy.  My 

> favorite tool for this is OfflineIMAP.


I have used "imapsync" to sync imap folders to a local computer, but it 
talks to a local imap server, like Dovecot. It is up to dovecot to 
decide how the local storage is done, and I do it on Mbox.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.6 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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