Re: GMail backup on debian

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:17:11 +0000, Camaleón wrote:

> Another thing to try:
> 
> http://blog.fealdia.org/2008/08/11/backing-up-gmail-on-debian-using-
isync/

Thanks for the info. I skimmed through the man page, but wasn't able to 
find out how can I backup only a certain folders (labels in gmail term). 
I suppose it is not the pattern(s) for "mailbox", which means something 
else to me.

> But I use the manual way and try to keep the mailbox folders in a good
> shape to avoid having lots (thounsands!) of message is just one "label".

Could you share how you do it the manual way please? 

> Split messages by years/topics is the clue to have a "sane" Gmail :-)

Is it ok to do it *afterward*? I.e., is it OK to, at the beginning of the 
year, do something like

 mv my_important_mails my_important_mails_2010
 mkdir my_important_mails

and not break anything?

Moreover, how can I view those folders in thunderbird? (I was able to 
view local mailbox files before, but somehow I can't do it now)

Thanks

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