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A Good Alternative for Gmail Offline?
Can I suggest taking a look at MailPile - it is early days yet but looks promising.
Free, Gratis & Completely Open Source
Cross Platform
Is obviously compatible with Gmail (I know most are, but ...
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Compose email in Gmail and edit HTML: is there a browser addon for this?
I now use the Markdown here browser extension for this.
Of course this is not HTML, as mentioned in my question, but it allows the emails to be edited "with code" (Markdown) and do CTRL+ALT+M to have ...
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MBOX to PST file converter
There is a free Convert MBOX to PST utility available for Windows and Outlook. Please note that I'm one of the developers of this tool.
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Leave gmail to a desktop client
Since you have mentioned that "Thunderbird" was slow, I have used "Mailspring" It is lightweight, good looking, has calendar Integration support and you can personalise the tool up-to a certain level....
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Mail provider with different domains for the same mailbox
I use Proton Mail, which is a secure mail service. For paid contributors, they offer the ability to link the DNS record of a domain that I own to their system, so that I can use the proton mail system ...
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Email notifier supporting Gmail as of 2023
I use Pop Peeper which does support Gmail via OATH2 and app password configuration in Gmail. The latter is considered a "security risk" accompanied by a recommendation for a strong password.
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GMail-safe Mail Program with Local Archive?
Mozilla Thunderbird meets points 1, 2, and 3 adequately; it requires an addon to meet point 4 (and the addon that I found doesn't seem to like the MBOX files that are generated by Forté Agent, my ...
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How to save text clips to insert into emails (eg, NOT email templates)?
This isn't specific to gmail, but Text Blaze seems like a possible solution. It's a bit overkill, but it works in any text field in chrome, which is nice.
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Gmail to .txt file
You can use OfflineIMAP to download a
specified folder from the remote IMAP server. You could for example
use .offlineimaprc.gmail that looks something like this:
# allow offlineimap access at https:/...
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MBOX to PST file converter
Follow these steps to convert Gmail MBOX to Outlook:
Create a Gmail for connecting to Outlook
Add your Gmail account to Outlook
Copy and paste your Gmail messages to your desktop
Copy your Gmail ...
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Google Sheets integrated with Gmail
Use Google Apps Script. It has a Mail Service and a Gmail Service that could be used to send emails. With the Gmail Service it could read the content of your mailbox even it could change some Gmail ...
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Software for communicating through google chrome (or any browser)
You should look into WebRTC, a browser-to-browser chat technology included in at least Firefox (and probably Chrome as well). Firefox used to have a built-in GUI for it called Hello, but that seems to ...
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Manage requests to unsubscribe
Unsubscribe requests do not work all the time. Legitimate companies might honor them, while shady businesses - the very ones you want to avoid - will just use the unsubscribe request to confirm that ...
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Software/app to sync Gmail and Yahoo address books?
Have you tried CircleBack? Syncs with Gmail/Yahoo, available on the web/Android/iPhone, seems to be a good fit.
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Mail client to dump 50GB of e-mails for archive purposes
You can do the same without any email client. I have experienced lagging and other issues with Outlook. Mail Clients often skip the attachments and the contents of the original message. That results ...
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Mail client to dump 50GB of e-mails for archive purposes
Personally I would look at using python and either its built in email library or the gmail api.
This would have a number of advantages:
Free, gratis & open source
Cross platform Windows, Linux &...
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Mail client to dump 50GB of e-mails for archive purposes
If you can get your mailbox into an MS Outlook PST format on your local machine, X1 Search, http://www.x1.com/, works well locally. I am using it to manage my current slice of mail, going back to 2008,...
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Browser extension to forward several emails at once through the Gmail interface
You can use the Google Chrome extension Multi Forward for Gmail:
gratis
quota of 100 forwarded emails per day
straightforward to use
Official forum
Cannot forward the full thread, but only the last ...
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MBox Viewer for large files
You could try loading the MBOX file into an IMAP server that uses MBOX for back-end storage. I believe Dovecot does this. Then you could browse the mailbox with an IMAP client.
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