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by zoobert 5050 days ago
Currently Gmvault gives you the ability to save your emails on disk and restore them on any Gmail account with all the features. For example labels will be restored as identical. Many email backup tools are very generic and you will loose quite a lot of information when restoring your emails in a blend IMAP Server. Now all emails are stored in individual EML files with a unique filename. It is quite open and it should be pretty easy to create a Maildir structure. I will add that in the roadmap for v2.0. I am not convinced by mbox because it is a unique file with all the emails concatenated in it. I will see what to do with it.
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Yeah, I understand the advantages of Gmvault :)

I also realize it might not make sense to use Maildir as the native DB for Gmvault, since you don't want to store multiple copies of each email like OfflineIMAP does. A 'gmvault export' option would be sufficient for my purposes.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help!

Yes exactly, I was thinking more of an export option to export in different formats.