Anyone used or heard of something like a PST file, but for FOSS email clients?
e.g. I’d like to do some housekeeping on two of my gmail accounts (I have 5 in total - but really only use 2 of them, the first one I got in 2003, and one I created in 2012). I’m actually paying google $2.50 a month to get 100 GB (on the 10 year old account), as I started pushing perilously close to the 15 GB limit for freebies…
What most of it is - is multiple copies of the same attachments and stuff, and the web client offers no way (surprise surprise! why would they make it simpler for you to NOT pay them $$$?) to delete just attachments - and its unbelievable they don’t implement dedup - but anyway (they probably do, but refuse to pass those storage savings onto the “customer”).
I’d like to download all stuff say, more than 3 years old, and archive it into something like a PST, but NOT a PST, if that makes sense. Hmmm… then I can delete ALL my email somehow, from say before 2019 or something?
I actually have PST files on my NAS of emails going back to 1995, so maybe PST might also be a solution for my gmail? But I’d rather something less Microsofty… And easier to open up on Linux…
I guess also - if I pointed some kinda IMAP mail client at my Gmail - it might make it easier to housekeep? Thunderbird seems overkill to me - Geary seemed a bit more low impact, and trimmer, last time I tried a “fat client” (but even so - I prefer to use the thin “web client” for ANY email system).
Just tried to get geary (not “geany”) to connect to my Gmail, but, since I last used it - I’ve considerably locked down my google account, with a 2FA token (FiDo USB thingie) and Geary won’t work with that (or any other MFA process it seems) - so I give up on Geary, Thunderbird looks like a gigantic monolith, so I shan’t look at that either… In fact - I think I’ll give up on the whole idea… Just keep paying $2.50 as an insurance policy that my inbox gets full and blocks incoming and outgoing… I use it often to share data (e.g. music and video files) with my brother in Melbourne, via G-Drive…