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Re:Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account by dmd on Friday November 18, 2016 @02:20PM (#12989341)
Wow. I stand corrected and that's awful. Yet another reason to use gmvault!
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Re:Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account by icebraining on Friday November 18, 2016 @04:04PM (#12990057)
Why it awful? As an archive, seems decent.
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Re:Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account by dmd on Friday November 18, 2016 @04:14PM (#12990131)
(1) inconsistent escaping rules (dealing with the literal string \nFrom)

(2) easy to corrupt

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Re:Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account by creeble on Friday November 18, 2016 @05:33PM (#12990635)
Worth noting that Google provides some Python sample code for parsing the file which works great.
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Re:Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account by cdubzzz on Friday November 18, 2016 @05:55PM (#12990753)
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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