[MlMt] Mass importing from Gmail via Takeout?

[Raza Rizvi]

Sorry I should probably have said that if I want to fetch an old email 
and it happens not to have been saved on my local machine, I can connect 
to the mail server with TailScale as I don’t make the server available 
to the general Internet…

On 14 Nov 2024, at 15:59, Raza Rizvi wrote:

> 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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