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cdubzzz
on Nov 18, 2016
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Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account
Yep! All messages are in a single mbox file and it's 3.2GB.
cdubz@professor-farnsworth ~/data $ du -h Mail-chris.mbox 3.2G Mail-chris.mbox
dmd
on Nov 18, 2016
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Wow. I stand corrected and that's awful. Yet another reason to use gmvault!
icebraining
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Why it awful? As an archive, seems decent.
dmd
on Nov 18, 2016
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(1) inconsistent escaping rules (dealing with the literal string \nFrom)
(2) easy to corrupt
creeble
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Worth noting that Google provides some Python sample code for parsing the file which works great.
cdubzzz
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Interesting - could you point out where to find this? I poked around a bit but didn't come up with anything.
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