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gmail backup software
http://www.gmvault.org
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A GUI for gmvault #327

Open bbhopesh opened 6 years ago

bbhopesh commented 6 years ago

A GUI for browsing/searching/managing backed up emails without restoring to a new Google account will be useful. We are planning to build one but not sure on what would be the best way to do it. This thread is just to get ideas from other developers in the community and see what their thoughts are. Right now, we are confused between these two:

  1. Expose the downloaded emails over IMAP server and use existing clients like Thunderbird and Outlook.
  2. Build a custom web UI with features similar to gmail.com

Both have their pros and cons. Option 1 seems like less work but some of Gmail features like labels are not a direct part of IMAP(afaik). Option 2 seems more work but easier to use without any need to install email clients.

Any thoughts/suggestions/ideas are welcome.

ovizii commented 5 months ago

Might be too late but ehre you go: https://github.com/kbadk/gmvault-webreader