[Alpine-info] Gmail to Mbox format

[Damion Yates via Alpine-info]

On Saturday, 12 July 2025, George Gutman via Alpine-info <
alpine-info at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> Is there any other way to export Gmail folders into Mbox format than

> Google's Takeout? Using Takeout the resulting Mbox files show a very

> different number of messages than the original Gmail folders, and they will

> not sort by the date they show (which is my Alpine setting). There is

> something very wrong with these files. I had asked this earlier but got

> distracted from responses.

>


You can pull down email via IMAP, this is probably easier using a syncing
tool but even Alpine can do this itself.  You'd have to leave it for a
while, but it should be possible to select all and save into another
location for each folder (label).

I use offlineimap which writes out as Maildir format, and my Alpine is
patched for Maildir support.  But I'm pretty sure this is trivially
convertible and I also think there are other syncing tools that should be
able to write in mbox format, although xoauth2, might be a bit of a
hindrance.

 - Damion


-- 
Damion Yates - damion.yates at gmail.com
London, England
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