lieer VS offlineimap

I fear this for my gmail. I now use mbsync (lieer[0]) to have my emails synced locally on my homeserver, and then browse it with notmuch[1]. It's an incredibly freeing experience to have all your email on your own machine.

0: https://github.com/gauteh/lieer

1: https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/man1/notmuch.html

The hardest part of setting up email in Emacs for me personally was figuring out the transport. I still use Gmail, and I'm not proud of that. For many years, I've been thinking about moving my mail somewhere else, but that task is somewhere at the deepest, darkest bottom of my list of priorities. The best mail sync utility that finally worked for me is gmaileer. It works nicely with both - notmuch and mu4e.

I'm interested in notmuch and lieer https://github.com/gauteh/lieer to sync gmail labels with local tags. I'm coming from thunderbird and I really want to move to a maildir setup for backup/archival/easy to manage purposes, away from monolithic mbox files, and have some solution for not duplicating tons of data in IMAP folders for the different gmail labels.

I use the lieer package, gmi pull, to incrementally pull in new gmail. There's an option to never delete things even if they're deleted on gmail, so it's a great way to keep my mail archive local and prune my gmail to keep it from getting too big.

In my experience mbsync is best if using IMAP as it works well with very large IMAP folders. If you happen to be on Gmail and Notmuch then Gmailieer is worth checking out as it provides full two-way label/tag sync between the two.

Put everything into a single notmuchmail database. It wil deduplicate the emails and even provide a fast local search interface for all of your mails https://notmuchmail.org/

For gmail you can use lieer to pull everything https://github.com/gauteh/lieer (tho it can take hours to pull ewerything). Fastmail has a similar tool https://github.com/elizagamedev/mujmap

If you unpack tour mbox into maildir then you can import that too into notmuch

After everything is in notmuch you can easily push everything to fastmail with isync/mbsync https://isync.sourceforge.io/

As a bonus point you now also have a easily updatable local backup of your e-mails.

As long as lieer (a.k.a. gmailieer) works, I don't have a problem at all. It's much faster than mbsync. And it should work with both notmuch (which I use) and mu4e.

I have just released a tool to synchronize notmuch mail with a JMAP server. It's very similar to lieer, which is a tool that does essentially the same but for GMail. JMAP mailboxes behave very similarly to GMail labels, meaning that each tag that doesn't get mapped to a special keyword (e.g. $seen, $draft, etc) is mapped to its own "label".

Is there some integration Logseq with lieer ( ex gmaileer ) or Gmail web interface or maybe another email client?

There are also isync and OfflineIMAP which sync email locally.

I'd consider using the Bridge + offlineimap (or a similar tool). That can connect via IMAP to both the Bridge IMAP and your destination IMAP service and copy all mails automatically that way.

As u/alex_herrero says, Proton Mail Bridge is very much useful. I'm using this myself together with offlineimap to have a local backup. I also use the Bridge with Thunderbird too, which also works quite well (especially the v3 beta).

For the sync / import functionality the MSP uses offlineimap, which is another counterpart to IMAPSYNC. Changing the import tool will not bring up the solution to the main problem, that I am not able to reset the imported stuff back to zero in order to test the different scenarios of the main use case.

Don't risk relying on someone else's hardware or service, use something like Offlineimap or Mbsync to sync your emails to your computer then automate multiple backups.

Many people use OfflineIMAP.

I've used offlineimap in the past: http://www.offlineimap.org/

I'm looking into replacing Thunderbird with mu4e (for the first time, despite being an Emacs guy for 15 years) and I got unexpectedly stuck at step 1, dowloading my email. offlineimap is broken on newer Pythons, getmail doesn't support Python 3 at all, and fetchmail is infamously inscrutable. It all seems a bit ridiculous, but I guess it speaks to how webmail has come to dominate proper email clients. Any recommendations?

Neither a mutt, nor an offlineimap user, but I believe those two are often used in combination: http://www.offlineimap.org/