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I just use gmvault: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault There's no reason to go through Takeout when IMAP exists.

comment by crazygringo · 2025-12-30 · in Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts

> the link to gmvault in your readme is now a dead end, is this it https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault . Funnily enough, the gmvault.org domain _that_ page points to is simply a parked GoDaddy placeholder. It's also not been updated in 10+…

comment by sgbeal · 2025-05-11 · in Gmail to SQLite

I've been using: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault For a long time and it's worked great. But it seems like GYB is actively maintained, so maybe I should switch.

comment by crazygringo · 2025-05-10 · in Gmail to SQLite

Looks interesting, the link to gmvault in your readme is now a dead end, is this it https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault . Thanks!

comment by mywacaday · 2025-05-10 · in Gmail to SQLite

I recently used https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault to do the exact same thing.

comment by scottydelta · 2020-11-02 · in Google users locked out after 15 years' use

I've used gmvault to backup ~3GB with no issues. https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault

comment by wfriesen · 2020-06-05 · in IMAP Email Backup

Gmvault is a tool for backing up your gmail account and never lose email correspondence: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault

comment by milo_im · 2020-05-03 · in What would you do if you lost your Google account?

You can work around it: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/335

comment by icedchai · 2020-03-27 · in Ask HN: I'm a small business and Google locked me out

https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault I've used this a few times for terminated employees (back when we were on dummy gmail accounts). It doesn't look like it's been updated in a while, but it still works [0] 0:…

comment by dhruvkar · 2020-03-08 · in Tell HN: Verizon quietly deleted my YahooMail inbox after 1 year of inactivity

…to have my own tokens some months ago, but I think that's a very good move in any case. [1] https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/335#issuecomment-4...

comment by emilburzo · 2019-10-14 · in “My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”

…ps://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/releases/tag/v1.20 For gmvault, you have to create it manually: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/335#issuecomment-4...

comment by aepiepaey · 2019-06-28 · in Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15

Yeah, there's an issue with a few comments already: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/335

comment by gmvault_unnn · 2019-03-22 · in Tell HN: Google removing Gmail access from IFTTT

You can archive your email by using something like this: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault

comment by graton · 2018-01-26 · in Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

For backing up GMail, can anyone compare this to https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault ?

comment by dmd · 2017-04-28 · in OfflineIMAP: sync and backup tool for IMAP

…the site, and github...Here's the best I've found...apparently it supports saving attachments... https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/73 >> Users asked about attachments. Put somewhere in the doc that they are saved.

comment by prplhaz4 · 2016-11-18 · in Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account

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Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account

story by uyoakaoma · 2016-11-18 · 136 comments

https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault - backs up your gmail account to a local db, and lets you restore it to another account.

comment by jasim · 2016-11-17 · in Don’t Mess with The Google

…of Gmvault ( http://www.gmvault.org ) an open source tool having its development hosted on github ( https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault ). I really like the idea of crowd funding and would like my tool to be founded like that if possible as…

comment by zoobert · 2012-07-12 · in An idea for Github to make more money

…a month). If you would like to report some issues or would like extra features: submit them to https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues

comment by zoobert · 2012-05-08 · in Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

It is available on the gh-pages branch of the Gmvault github repository ( https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/tree/gh-pages ). Pull it and submit your suggestions. Many thanks.

comment by zoobert · 2012-05-08 · in Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

…the GH issue's comments: Solution: set 'Show in IMAP' in Settings->Labels->All Mail on gmail.com https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/2#issuecomment-555...

comment by mattjaynes · 2012-05-07 · in Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

Restart doesn't seem to be available. https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/4

comment by davidradcliffe · 2012-05-07 · in Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

please gglanzani and weiran. Send me your errors or create an issue in https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues I would appreciate to have the logs with the debug activated: ./gmvault sync foo.bar@gmail.com --debug

comment by zoobert · 2012-05-07 · in Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

Seems like this guy is getting the same error: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/4 (Issue number 4 on the github project.) I added my output to the issue. I'm on Gmvault v1.0-beta from pypi. It doesn't recognize the --restart…

comment by chbrown · 2012-05-07 · in Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

The source is pretty easy to read. Here's how it's working: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/blob/master/src/gmv/gmvau... (It stores each mail in two separate files: a .eml file with the message body, and a .meta file with metadata.)

comment by callahad · 2012-05-07 · in Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

Be default, yes: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/blob/master/src/gmv/imap_... However, if I recall correctly, Python's built-in SSL support doesn't do certificate verification, so you're still completely open to man in the middle…

comment by callahad · 2012-05-07 · in Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails