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What is the most portable and cross-platform format to store my email backups?

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Mar 15, 20264310 views
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I currently use gmail, but this question is valid for any client: What is the best way to backup and store my email so that in the future I will be able to access it on a variety of platforms and clients. Update: While using gmail is certainly cross-platform and they have their own backup system, I…

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The two most common open formats for storing email are mbox and Maildir. Both essentially just put the whole email (which is a stream of [ASCII] bytes) into a file. The only real difference is that mbox puts all emails into one file (concatenated, w…

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