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Store emails from a GMvault backup into an sqlite DB and extracts attachments in a dedicated folder

4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2022-03-30 · latest 2025-05-11

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  1. …the gmvault backup). Since I found not very practical to search through that archive, I developed https://github.com/karteum/gmvaultdb in order to convert it to a local sqlite DB (I made it for personal use and chose to keep the schema…
    comment by karteum · 2025-05-11 · in Gmail to SQLite
  2. …with IMAP or GYB/GMvault (by the way I have written this little tool to use/explore GMVault backups https://github.com/karteum/gmvaultdb :). It seems I'm not the only one experiencing those encoding issues with Google Takeout…
  3. I agree, but an an alternative to mbox/maildir format on your machine : I wrote https://github.com/karteum/gmvaultdb in order to have a single-file SQLite DB with all old email contents (all UTF-8 inside, simple/minimalistic schema),…
  4. …email encodings (for some of you who archive old emails). I noticed it when coding a small tool https://github.com/karteum/gmvaultdb to (among other things) import the mbox from Takeout into an sqlite DB : Google performs some encoding…