I think that my mbox problems might be with Gmail or Thunderbird:

nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$
nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$ mail -f linux.mbox
Cannot create mailbox linux.mbox: Requested item not found nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$
nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$ head linux.mbox
From boris.gjenero@gmail.com Sun, 08 Oct 2023 04:18:08
Delivered-To: saunders.nicholas@gmail.com
Received: by 2002:a05:7208:81cd:b0:74:9338:9721 with SMTP id l13csp1184940rbf;
Sat, 7 Oct 2023 21:18:15 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 2002:a05:6870:5386:b0:1d7:b3b4:4b8d with SMTP id h6-20020a056870538600b001d7b3b44b8dmr4448288oan.0.1696738695055;
Sat, 07 Oct 2023 21:18:15 -0700 (PDT)
ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1696738695; cv=none;
d=google.com; s=arc-20160816;
b=mM9qT5ZWLbKeuGpRGsMnV8phEqDH2EAu82fPqpCIKm+dstFXHfTesv7yiAL1PKchHt
ctGMOVXc99GhL9Eh71jLGEk2BCVrwBtiQGYyPW5yZVC9WxvprQDJ9gpNED4L/pZtvshQ nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$
nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$ tail linux.mbox
quot;Android-x86&quot; group.<br />
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to <a href=3D"mailto:android-x86+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">android= -x86+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br />
To view this discussion on the web visit <a href=3D"https://groups.google.c= om/d/msgid/android-x86/314ca2d0-f910-4cde-9deb-449ab3aa3df5%40gmail.com?utm= _medium=3Demail&utm_source=3Dfooter">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/andr= oid-x86/314ca2d0-f910-4cde-9deb-449ab3aa3df5%40gmail.com</a>.<br />

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nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$
nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$ wc -l linux.mbox
2425 linux.mbox
nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$


https://askubuntu.com/q/1494144/847449


How would I verify the download?

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On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Nicholas Saunders wrote:

I think that my mbox problems might be with Gmail or Thunderbird:

nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$
nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$ mail -f linux.mbox
Cannot create mailbox linux.mbox: Requested item not found nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$
nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$ head linux.mbox
From boris.gjenero@gmail.com Sun, 08 Oct 2023 04:18:08

There is a problem with the From line. Alpine expect a line that says

From boris.gjenero@gmail.com Sun 8 Oct 04:18:08 2023

Note the differences: No comman after the day of the week, the location of
the year is at the end, and the number of the day of the month is two characters long, and never starts with a 0, but a space when it is a
single digit.

I hope this helps.

--
Eduardo
https://alpineapp.email (web)
http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

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On Monday, 27 November 2023 at 18:16:30 UTC-8, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Nicholas Saunders wrote:

I think that my mbox problems might be with Gmail or Thunderbird:

nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$
nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$ mail -f linux.mbox
Cannot create mailbox linux.mbox: Requested item not found nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$
nicholas@mordor:~/Downloads$ head linux.mbox
From boris....@gmail.com Sun, 08 Oct 2023 04:18:08

There is a problem with the From line. Alpine expect a line that says

From boris....@gmail.com Sun 8 Oct 04:18:08 2023

Note the differences: No comman after the day of the week, the location of the year is at the end, and the number of the day of the month is two characters long, and never starts with a 0, but a space when it is a
single digit.

I hope this helps.

--
Eduardo
https://alpineapp.email (web)
http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

Yes, got it. The "app specific password" took some extra googling, but I got that setup. (Went to 2 Factor Authentication and at the bottom of the page created a special password for Alpine.)

What I'm thinking is to add local folders and then just use the bulk operations from Alpine to backup e-mails locally. But how do I create local folders? Everything is IMAP at the moment.

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