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--- gmail_annoyances [2020.05.01 10:44] – created Steve Isenberg
+++ gmail_annoyances [2021.05.20 05:18] – Steve Isenberg
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+//This page was last changed ~~LASTMOD~~//
 =====Gmail Annoyances=====
-====Searching your gmail====
+~~NOCACHE~~====Searching your gmail====
-Maybe your account is getting too close to filling and you want to search and delete messages smartly.
+Maybe your account is getting too close to filling and you want to search and delete messages smartly.\\
+Note that if you delete them, they're not removed from your gmail space until you empty the trash.  So the sequence of actions could be:
+  - Search for large emails, those from certain addresses, etc, and delete all of them.
+  - Empty trash.
-|from:leslie|
-|to:david|
+^gmail search\\ command^explanation^
+|alphabet|find all mail with the word "alphabet" in it.  Also finds those with "alphabets".|
+|from:george|find all mail from this person|
+|to:martha|find all mail to this person
 |subject:dinner|
-|OR|From:leslie OR from:david|
+|OR|From:george OR from:martha|
 |label:Adverts|
 |has:attachment|
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 |newer_than:2d\\ older_than|newer_than:2d means, Messages sent within the last 2 days\\ d (day), m (month), y (year)|
 |size:10M|All messages of at least 10MB in size|
-|+unicorn|Finds words matching unicorn exactly -- not unicorns or unicorn|
+|+unicorn|Finds words matching unicorn exactly -- not different forms like "unicorns" or misspelled "unicron"|
+Examples
+|in:adverts older_than:10d|all mail in the "adverts" folder older than 10 days|
+|from:costco@online.costco.com size:5M|all mail from that address 5MB or larger in size|
+|in:sent before:2020/09/15 after:2020/09/13 |all mail that you sent in that time period, midnight on 9/13 to maybe a message on 9/16|
+====Offload messages from gMail====
+//Suggestions from a thread on/about 19may2021.//
+===apps===
+Depending on the size of the mailbox, you may be able to accomplish this all with just drag-n-drop, but there are some powerful apps for Mac OS that support this kind of task, for example:
+|https://mailsteward.com/index.html|MailSteward|
+|https://www.mothsoftware.com/index.php|Mail Archiver X|
+|https://thehorcrux.com/|Horcrux|
+|https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/|EagleFiler|
+FWIW, there are a lot of reasons one might want to do a bulk download/archive of an email account, the most basic being the security of having a local backup copy. Others may just want to escape Google. And for people with super large email accounts (> 2 million saved emails), it becomes increasingly important to shunt older email into secondary storage just to keep an email client from collapsing under the load.
+//Glenn P. Parker//
+===lifewire===
+I successfully downloaded 15GB of gmail (everything through the end of 2020) with these instructions:
+https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-export-your-emails-from-gmail-as-mbox-files-1171881
+It went smoothly, and I can download more as I go along, and it should stay all in order.
+I also successfully tried out the mail client claws-mail, with which I can read and search my now-downloaded mbox files.
+https://www.claws-mail.org
+As far as I know you can also send mail using claws-mail, though that's not how I'm planning to use it.
+I created an account with a different mail provider.
+Once I get myself all the way off of gmail, I can send and receive mail on that account
+and stay under the tiny quota by routinely (weekly?) downloading received mail into mbox files on my own computer,
+reading/searching these archives with claws-mail.
+//J Tang//
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