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gmail_annoyances [2020.05.01 10:58] – [Searching your gmail] Steve Isenberg | gmail_annoyances [2021.05.20 05:22] – Steve Isenberg | ||
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=====Gmail Annoyances===== | =====Gmail Annoyances===== | ||
+ | ~~NOCACHE~~ | ||
====Searching your gmail==== | ====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' | ||
+ | - Search for large emails, those from certain addresses, etc, and delete all of them. | ||
+ | - Empty trash. | ||
- | |from: | + | |
- | |to:martha| | + | ^gmail search\\ command^explanation^ |
+ | |alphabet|find all mail with the word " | ||
+ | |from: | ||
+ | |to:martha|find all mail to this person | ||
|subject: | |subject: | ||
|OR|From: | |OR|From: | ||
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|in:adverts older_than: | |in:adverts older_than: | ||
|from: | |from: | ||
+ | |in:sent before: | ||
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+ | ====Offload messages from gMail==== | ||
+ | // | ||
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+ | ===MacOS=== | ||
+ | Depending on the size of the mailbox, you may be able to accomplish this all with just drag-n-drop, | ||
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+ | |[[https:// | ||
+ | |[[https:// | ||
+ | |[[https:// | ||
+ | |[[https:// | ||
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+ | FWIW, there are a lot of reasons one might want to do a bulk download/ | ||
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+ | //Glenn P. Parker// | ||
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+ | ===lifewire=== | ||
+ | I successfully downloaded 15GB of gmail (everything through the end of 2020) with these instructions: | ||
+ | [[https:// | ||
+ | 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:// | ||
+ | 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/ | ||
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+ | //J Tang// | ||
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gmail_annoyances.txt · Last modified: 2022.07.04 08:26 by Steve Isenberg