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by dmd 3500 days ago
So there's 23407 email messages but only one file containing all of them?
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cdubzzz 3500 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 3500 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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creeble 3499 days ago
Worth noting that Google provides some Python sample code for parsing the file which works great.
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cdubzzz 3499 days ago
Interesting - could you point out where to find this? I poked around a bit but didn't come up with anything.
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