[Alpine-info] Gmail to Mbox format

[Mats Dufberg via Alpine-info]

If you use Alpine for accessing the Gmail mail you can also create a local 
mailbox on your computer and copy the messages from Gmail to local 
mailbox.

For alpine on Linux and FreeBSD mbx format is faster than mbox format, and 
it also possible to access the maibox with two alpine processes at the 
same time, if needed. I have no experience of Alpine on Windows, but I 
would expect the same to be true there.


Yours
Mats


On 2025-07-12, 14:48 (-0700) George Gutman <gagutman1 at gmail.com> wrote:


> I've got Alpine installed on my Windows machine at home, can I do this 

> with Alpine?

> 

> And I used Alpine as my main email for years until the machine(s) became 

> unavailable and I have years of messages in Mbox format which I've 

> gotten used to. Would there be a compelling reason to change formats?

> 

>    George

> 

> On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM Mats Dufberg <mats at dufberg.se> wrote:

>       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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