Comment on E-mail archive browser for gmail takeout files (.mbox)

irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• harmbugler@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A nice, simple solution of having a file and an app that can read that file. Hard to believe people are suggesting setting up a whole e-mail server to read one file.

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• emb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Was just recently trying to figure out how to browse my mbox backup, and wound up at the same solution.

  I’m stunned that it’s part of a plugin, and not a standard feature. Didn’t see many other actively maintained programs that made it easy either.

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• gedfromgont@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not convenient. My computer is actually a docked Steamdeck I only use occasionally in Desktop mode. I know lots of people will frown at that, but I do 99% of anything I do (aside from gaming), on my phone since a long time ago. For work I have a work laptop and I surely wouldn’t want to store my mails there.

  So having Thunderbird on my Steamdeck for browsing old e-mails is just not convenient for me.

  My small homeserver is part of a backup strategy, so putting something on it reachable via a webUI of some sort will also ensure all of that is backed up. Since my Steamdeck is mostly games and many saves are stored in the cloud automatically, I don’t back it up as much, not worth the effort.

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    OK That’s cool. Didn’t know what your set up was like. So, scratch Thunderbird. LOL

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  • passenger@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would recommend pika for easy backup, steamdeck (or even a windows pc) could have problems with cloud saves. If you want real backups you should set up deduplicated archives. This means you just install pika and click a couple times. You can set it to backup over ssh. The deduplicated compressed backup is often smaller than source data size even if it has years of archives.

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