On 21/1/18 21:21, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 07:59:34PM +0800, Mathias Korber wrote: > >> I started backing up a number of my Gmail/Google Apps accounts >> uwing offlineimap and I find that for several of them (all?) >> there seems to be a folder 'bak' (with subfolders) >> that I don't see in Gmail itself >> >> Is that the Archive? >> Is that duplicating any emails (the numbers of messages in those >> folders are huge for some accounts, 100k messages and counting) >> >> Should I filter that or are those messages potentially useful? > > I'm not aware of a 'bak' folders in Gmail. It's likely folders of > users.
No, There are no 'bak' folders visible in the Gmail interface itself but when I sync via offlineimap, I get drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 archive drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:48 archives drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 bak.all_mail.2013 drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 bak.all_mail.2014 drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:48 bak.drafts drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 bak.flagged drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 bak.important drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:48 bak.sent drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:48 bak.spam drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:48 bak.trash drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 bak.trash.2012 drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 bak.trash.2015 drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 drafts drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 inbox drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 inbox.2017-07-sf drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:48 notes drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:48 sent drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 trash drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:48 unwanted drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 12:49 years on another account: drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 16:44 bak.bin.mail drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 16:44 bak.drafts drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 16:44 bak.flagged drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 16:44 bak.important drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 16:44 bak.sent drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 16:44 bak.spam drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 16:44 bak.trash drwxrwxrwx 1 mathias staff 264 Jan 20 16:44 inbox and so on. it seems to me they are linked to flags in Gmail? _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
