[MlMt] Mass importing from Gmail via Takeout?

[Raza Rizvi]

Robert,

But you can’t import into MM, you could only import(if possible) 
import that into another mail server - which you could run locally on a 
Mac of course and then point MM to that.

I have done a similar thing with a local Mac mini 2009 serving my older 
email - that runs MailServe.

MailServe is basically a wrapper around Dovecot and a few other things 
but is cheap and functional - plus I failed to get Dovecot working 
satisfactorily on my own for reasons I forget - it is FOSS that you can 
get with homebrew.

That mail server has 303005 mails on it… so very much akin to your 
requirements. To copy the emails you can just copy folders from Gmail to 
MailServe with drag and drop from within MailMate, that is easier than 
using IMAP COPY or export/import I recall - although it takes longer 
(plus you then have the original in case you muck stuff up and what to 
do it again)

Raza


On 14 Nov 2024, at 15:44, Robert M. Münch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a new system and about 300.000 emails in Gmail. The big 
> question is how to get these into MailMate best.
>
> Since my other system's MM installation is pretty old and has some 
> quirks, I want to start fresh with MM.
>
> Has anyone tried to use Google Takeout to export all Gmail content and 
> import it into MM? Does that work? What if I already downloaded some 
> emails via IMAP? Are duplicates recognized?
>
>
> --
>
> Robert M. Münch
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