On 31Jan2021 21:16, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote: >1) I eventually want to migrate all of my Gmail to ProtonMail. I will >probably never entirely get rid of Gmail. For one thing it makes a good >honey pot for when I must supply an email, but do not want to give out my >preferred email.
Might I suggest mailinator.com for this? It's a free service which accepts email for _any_ address @mailinator.com (and a suite of other domains for when systems special case reject mailinator). Messages are kept for a short preriod of time and only the text component. You can look at them with a web browser interface. There are no passwords (so pick a random address to avoid collisions). It is handy for temporary-but-necessary addresses, or for "boring" addresses (vendor spam). >But I would like to at least minimize the data they collect on me. >My distant end goal is to separate from Google software entirely, but doing >that seems >difficult until I determine how to solve my Android phone dilemmas. But that >is not a >concern for Mutt! I forward all email from the GMail account which is "To:" the GMail address, to my real address c...@cskk.id.au. I do leave it behind (so archived, not deleted) at the GMail end. >I see two routes towards this migration: (a) Forwarding all Gmail to >ProtonMail and only have Mutt track ProtonMail. As I get time I will >notify everyone to use my new email address. I do that (GMail -> c...@cskk.id.au). If nothing else, there will always be services with you GMail address (or whatever old address). >2) I would like to remove all email storage from the cloud, that is, >whether Gmail or ProtonMail, once I have my mail on my local PC I want to >delete it from those accounts. What would be the best way to do this? I collect from my c...@cskk.id.au account using getmail with a setting which deletes collected messages. So the actual c...@cskk.id.au inbox is normally empty. >3) I would like my local storage of my emails to allow for me to store >certain content types in sensible folders. For example, Python Tutor emails >that I want to keep I would like to store in a Python Tutor folder, Mutt >emails in a Mutt folder, etc. Pretty sure I'm mentioned this before. My process is getmail from c...@cskk.id.au, and a separate programme to file messages. I have my own (mailfiler), but procmail and other tools are popular. >Probably I would best be served by a manual, >not an automatic, moving into desired folders as I will be picky as to those >emails I would like to keep. What would be the best advice on this? Then tag messages in you inbox and ";s+folder" to move them in batches. Here I mean mutt's (t)ag keystroke, an in memory flag. Emphemeral, used entirely to do mutt things to an ad hoc batch of messages. >5) I would like to be able to auto-backup locally stored emails on my >PC to another hard drive on my local network. I guess this would be >facilitated by a sensible organization of my PC's email storage? Yes. Though I keep all my email in a large "mail" directory (with many Maildir subdirectories). I back up that whole directory to local another server every so often. I do that with an external shell script, as I also back up other stuff. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
