[Alpine-info] Gmail to Mbox format

[Mats Dufberg via Alpine-info]

Is it possible for your client to be connected to both Gmail and some 
other IMAP server that you have control of? That IMAP server could be 
running on your local computer. If so, you could configure your IMAP 
server to store the email in mbox format, and copy alla messages from 
Gmail to the other IMAP server.

That said, do you really want to use mbox format? It is probably inferior 
to many other formats.

Yours,
Mats


On 2025-07-12, 09:15 (-0700) George Gutman via Alpine-info <alpine-info at u.w...:


> 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.

>

>    George



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