On Saturday, 12 July 2025, George Gutman via Alpine-info <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there any other way to export Gmail folders into Mbox format than
> Google's Takeout? Using Takeout the resulting Mbox files show a very
> different number of messages than the original Gmail folders, and they will
> not sort by the date they show (which is my Alpine setting). There is
> something very wrong with these files. I had asked this earlier but got
> distracted from responses.
>

You can pull down email via IMAP, this is probably easier using a syncing
tool but even Alpine can do this itself.  You'd have to leave it for a
while, but it should be possible to select all and save into another
location for each folder (label).

I use offlineimap which writes out as Maildir format, and my Alpine is
patched for Maildir support.  But I'm pretty sure this is trivially
convertible and I also think there are other syncing tools that should be
able to write in mbox format, although xoauth2, might be a bit of a
hindrance.

 - Damion


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Damion Yates - [email protected]
London, England
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