12021/00/30 09:27.95 ನಲ್ಲಿ, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> ಬರೆದರು:
*snip* > > 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. 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 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. (b) Track both accounts with > Mutt while doing the transition. What would your advice be? I have done exactly this, actually. I would connect Mutt to both accounts, simply because (as I found out) email migration is a giant PITA (pain in the a**). While you will be able to switch most of your accounts over quite quickly (if you have a record somewhere of where you have accounts open), there will be a 'long tail' of email addresses that simply won't update, and having quick access to both addresses, even if you mostly use the ProtonMail one, is quite useful. > > 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? If you use a separate mail syncing program like fetchmail or mbsync or whatever, you can tell it to delete emails on the server after (successfully!) fetching them. Personally, I don't know that I would recommend that, simply because you never know when you might actually need access to your emails from e.g. your phone. Also, unless you have impeccable backup practices (I know I don't!), having an extra copy always available on the server is useful. This is especially true if the mailbox isn't being monetised as in the case of ProtonMail. > > 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. 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? I would suggest tagging (using e.g. notmuch) over physically moving emails. This allows labelling one email with more than one tag and doesn't mess with the Maildir structure (you _can_ have subfolders and such within Maildir, but there are some differences of opinion over how this should be implemented and I personally recommend sticking with the regular "official" Maildir format - i.e. no sub-folders besides cur, new, and tmp). > > 4) I would like to be able to quickly search through all locally stored > emails. I think Andrew has already offered a good solution. Does anyone > have different thoughts on this from his? notmuch, period. > > 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, backing up your emails should be part of your regular backup routine. I store all of my emails under ~/.local/mail/ with subdirectories for each account. HTH! - Chiraag -- ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ Pronouns: he/him/his
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