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by dmd 3499 days ago
Right. So, maildir format then, not mbox.
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cdubzzz 3499 days ago
It is actually mbox. I should have provided more detailed numbers - in my Takeout file, for example, there are 91,360 chat messages and only 23,407 email messages .
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dmd 3499 days ago
So there's 23407 email messages but only one file containing all of them?
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cdubzzz 3499 days ago
Yep! All messages are in a single mbox file and it's 3.2GB.

  cdubz@professor-farnsworth ~/data $ du -h Mail-chris.mbox 
  3.2G	Mail-chris.mbox
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dmd 3499 days ago
Wow. I stand corrected and that's awful. Yet another reason to use gmvault!
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icebraining 3499 days ago
Why it awful? As an archive, seems decent.
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dmd 3499 days ago
(1) inconsistent escaping rules (dealing with the literal string \nFrom)

(2) easy to corrupt

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