Search and find emails in gmvault archived email data files

[ye]

Hi,

This is more of a question of how to search and find information in the archived data folders (which emails are downloaded, individually gzipped and attached with a meta file for sync back to Gmail.) However, I can't find an easy way to search information in piles of these gzipped archive data files. For tech savvy users, yes sure you can probably have an one-liner piping through find,gunzip and awk or simply zgrep to get what you want, but for average users, this is almost impossible.

Alternatively, I am not sure if we can sync one gmail account's email data files into another gmail account and use gmail search on the web? Even if so, it's probably less ideal as it adds bloat to the target gmail account unnecessarily.

Can someone else shed some lights on this feature/functionality if it isn't solved yet? Does this warrant a thought of creating a global meta file / index for this particular purpose?

Appreciate it.

Ye

[WebSpider]

You should checkout the mailpile.is website. They are doing this.

[ye]

Sure. But how about making gmvault better and more useful?

On Nov 15, 2013, at 6:49 AM, Nils [email protected] wrote:

You should checkout the mailpile.is website. They are doing this.

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[gaubert]

@ye I am back from the Goulag and have restarted working on Gmvault. This is something I would like to build. For that, you need to generate an index and use the index to search the information. It is in the pile of work to do and I hope to release it in a future version. For the moment I am fixing bugs and inconsistencies and then will focus on new features. I hope to release a new version for end of this year.

[ye]

Got it thanks @gaubert ! Looking forward to that search feature.

On Nov 15, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Guillaume Aubert [email protected] wrote:

@ye I am back from the Goulag and have restarted working on Gmvault. This is something I would like to build. For that, you need to generate an index and use the index to search the information. It is in the pile of work to do and I hope to release it in a future version. For the moment I am fixing bugs and inconsistencies and then will focus on new features. I hope to release a new version for end of this year.

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[davidshq]

Any updates on this front?

[mozey]

To search email synced with gmvault a workaround can be to gmvault export to maildir format and then use mu to search for email or extract attachments. That's what I've done, having a built in feature for this would be a lot more convenient