On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 09:56:10PM +0200, Julius Hamilton wrote:
Unfortunately, I have been trying to get going with some simple tools like
grepmail and mail and I can't find an answer to a simple question I have.
How are these tools configured? It seems like grepmail looks in mailbox
directories already saved in your filesystem, instead of there being some
kind of configuration file or .rc file where you put in your IMAP and SMTP
info. So I would need to already have downloaded a mailbox onto my system.
Well the manpage you read says a required argument to grepmail is
"file(s)". That sounds local to me.
Could anyone provide me with some simple steps to download my Gmail inbox
to my filesystem as a mailbox, so that I could grepmail through it? I did
read that the mailbox could be saved to var/mail or just $HOME. In either
case I think grepmail can search for it and find it.
Didn't know, I have google send my gmail to my home account.
I expected you could just select the desired gmail messages and download
them. Found out you can only do single messages that way.
Asking google how to do it got me to takeout.google.com. Google lets
you download all your data throught "takeout". Its a little clumsy,
but if you deselect all and reselect just "mail", you can download
all your gmail (trash, spam, and archive included :)).
jl
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