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Gmail Backup and Freeing up Space

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Gmail Backup and Freeing up Space

#1 Post by larry77 »

Dear All,
I would like to simply backup my gmail and be able to free some space because I am close to hitting the space limit of the free version.
In an ideal world, I would like to backup the mail before a certain date (say 01/01/2017) regardless of its label (whether it is sent/received , or with some other label).
I should say that I run debian stable on my box.
What are your suggestions?
I saw this

http://gmvault.org/index.html

but I am experiencing issues with the installation and the fact that it does not support python 3.x is a potential issue for the future.

It is also reasonable for me to open another gmail account (let us call it backup account) and somehow "export" all my emails before a certain date to the backup account as long the mail structure (inbox, outbox, labels, etc...). is not lost.
I certainly am not the only one with this need, so I would like to have some suggestions.
Thanks!

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Re: Gmail Backup and Freeing up Space

#2 Post by fcorbelli »

My suggestions

1) Thunderbird. Download your e-mails (with IMAP).
Extract (drag-and-drop as eml)
Reimport (into a mbox file), dragging the .EMLs inside
Purge gmail

2) Open another IMAP account and run imapsync, with something like
imapsync --host1 imap.firstdomain.com --user1 info@firstdomain.com --password1 powerfulpassword --host2 mail.newdomain.it --user2 info@newdomain.it --password2 evenmorepowerful
Purge gmail

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Re: Gmail Backup and Freeing up Space

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Thanks for your suggestion!

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Re: Gmail Backup and Freeing up Space

#4 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

Thunderbird has a "Local Folders" 'account' in addition to your Gmail IMAP account.
Just create the folders you want in there and drag and drop as required.
These folders store the mail on your local drive in standard mbox format.
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