Re: [Alpine-info] Converting GMail to Mbox format

[Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info]

On 2025-04-22 21:27, via Alpine-info wrote:

Does anyone have experience converting GMail to Mbox format that can be used by Alpine?

There are a number of ways to do this.

First, Alpine can directly connect to Gmail and read your Gmail mail online, without any kind of mirroring or conversion.  This is thoroughly documented on the Alpine website, and, for most folks, this is probably the best option. Second, you can use various tools to mirror your Gmail mail to a local machine, and then Alpine can read the mail from the local copy.  My favorite tool for this is OfflineIMAP.

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Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 15.6 x86_64 at Telcontar)

I have used "imapsync" to sync imap folders to a local computer, but it talks to a local imap server, like Dovecot. It is up to dovecot to decide how the local storage is done, and I do it on Mbox.

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