GmVault is a small utility to backup all or parts of a given GMail mailbox. It generates a set of directories organized by date (YYYY-MM/*). Each folder has two files per mail, one .eml containing the actual mail (headers and body) and a .meta containing all GMail metadata (id of the mail, date sent, subject, thread ID for a given conversation and so on).

This gem is composed of a library (GMail::Utils) and the corresponding script to transform that backup into a proper Maildir-formatted mailbox. The script takes a tag as main argument and will take only mails matching the given tag.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'gmail-utils'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install gmail-utils

tag2maildir [-h] [-b DIR] -t TAG DIR

-t TAG      Use the following tag +TAG+ to filter the mails
-b DIR      Use the given directory as base dir to create the mailbox (defaults to +~/Maildir+)
DIR         Use the following path to the gmvault directory

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