[Feature request] restore-mbox: recreate labels from the mbox files and directories names

[Fred Garz]

Hello,

I came across gyb while I was looking for a way to import to GSuite / Gmail all my email archives (starting in 1996...). I switched to the Gmail web & mobile apps from Thunderbird a while ago, and all my archived emails are stored locally in thunderbird in "Local Folders", with dozens of folders and sub-folders organized by job, year, projects, etc.

Thunderbird email folders are stored in a directory/files on disk in mbox format, with specific names and extensions for folders and sub folders : 

24905559        0 drwxr-xr-x    5 fgarzon          staff                 160 Jun 16 17:23 .

24908553        0 drwx------    4 fgarzon          staff                 128 Jun 16 17:23 ./Folder1.sbd

24908554        8 -rw-r--r--    1 fgarzon          staff                3674 Jun 16 17:24 ./Folder1.sbd/Sub folder.msf

24908555        8 -rw-------    1 fgarzon          staff                1188 Jun 16 17:24 ./Folder1.sbd/Sub folder

24908552        8 -rw-r--r--    1 fgarzon          staff                3673 Jun 16 17:24 ./Folder1.msf

24908551        8 -rw-------    1 fgarzon          staff                1188 Jun 16 17:24 ./Folder1

An email folder is represented on disk as an mbox file storing messages (the name of the file is the name of the mail folder, with an extran index file with the .msf extension). If the email folder contains subfolders, they are stored in a sub-directory with the .sbd extension.

I know gyb is able to restore mbox files from Google Takeout, and recreate the folder hierarchy from the  X-Gmail-Labels header in each message of the mbox file.

I would like gyb to have the "import from thunderbird" extension, or an option to recreate the label hierarchy in gmail from the directory/file structure of the --local-folder directory (I could rename the mbox files with an .mbox extension and remove the .sbd extension to make it easier and less thunderbird specific...). 

Is it a feature that has already been requested ? I would be interested to code it, but I am new to python (I am more of a ruby/perl type, I apologize in advance ;-), is there a starting place where I can learn how to contribute to the project ? 

Thank you in advance.

[Marcus Frank]

Hello,

I have basically the same use case and would love to know if there are any plans by now to implement it?

Cheers

Marcus

[Jay Lee]

No plans but pull requests are always welcome.

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[Alessio Sugoni]

Hey,

I have exactly the same usecase, and this would be a killer feature, paired with a couple of scripts to correctly organize the files GYB would really become a must-have.

Hope you're going to take this feature in consideration!

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