[kwlug-disc] How to Archiving Gmail Locally

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

The FAQ says that the state is kept in the oldmail-* files under ~/.getmail.

So it seems to me that it is safe to move the messages themselves.

I will try it out.

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> Thanks Giles.
>
> So, if getmail is using IMAP for retrieval, and copies individual messages
> to the MailDir directory, then I move some files (i.e. messages) from cur
> to another directory, say 2007/06.
>
> Will getmail be confused by that?
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Giles Malet <gdmalet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In the directory ~/mail/gmail, the script will create subdirectories
>>> called
>>> 'cur', 'tmp', and 'new'.
>>>
>>
>> This is standard 'Maildir' format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir).
>> Some mail clients, such as mutt, support it directly; there's a list on the
>> Wikipedia page.
>>
>> g
>>
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