Importing 1,592 emails from gmail.com into KMail

[GreyGeek]

Today I decided to drop off of gmail, because of Google's alliance with Facebook to censor their postings for "hate" speech.

So, I fired up KMail and connected it to my ISP, neb.rr.com. Connected beautifully and a test msg came back in good order.

I went to my gmail account and exported all 1,592 emails as a single 192MB MBOX file, and the 120 contacts as a vcard file.

I used Kmail's import feature to load the emails into a new folder, Old_gmail, and the vcard file into the addressbook. Went perfectly.

KMail crashed twice while initially setting it up but nothing was lost. I browsed the 1,592 emails and all were perfect. I edited the 120 contacts and got the address book in tiptop shape.

I used to use Kmail exclusively but switched to gmail in 2008, if my email dates are any indication. I know I haven't used KMail since 2012, when I moved to Kubuntu 12.04.

My new email address is greygeek77@neb.rr.com

[TWPonKubuntu]

Today I decided to drop off of gmail, because of Google's alliance with Facebook to censor their postings for "hate" speech.
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Congratulations on a wise move.

[dequire]

I use MyKolab now for email, contacts, calendaring, etc. as they support KDEPIM development and I love it. Took about one day to de-google completely, which is not too bad really. The last step for me is finding an alternative for Google Alerts of which there are some out there, but mostly they are paid and focus on social media, whereas I want a broader scope. But I highly recommend giving MyKolab a look. Easy android syc as well.

[GreyGeek]

Yesterday I downloaded the 1,592 emails as an MBOX file that KMail easily imported.
Last night while thinking about what other things I had to do I remembered that Chrome uploaded login names and passwords to the passwords.google.com site, which I've used on one or two occasions to find a password that I had forgotten. I thought that was neat, and I didn't pay too much attention beyond looking for that password that I needed, which were on the first page. Today, I began searching for a way to download those website urls, login names and passwords to my local HD. There is NONE! Even printing of that page gives only the first page and no passwords are exposed. I had to manually copy each of the three items for nearly 100 sites. To make aggravations greater, Google would automatically log me off every two or three minutes regardless of my activity level.

But, here is the bad part: As I worked my way down the list I noticed some 192.168.*.* addresses. They were my CUPS login name and password, and worse yet, the login name and password for my Linksys E2500 router, to both sign on the wifi and to sign on as an administrator!

I suspect that it doesn't matter if I have a google account or not, Chromium can still call home with my personal info and store it for later use by whom ever. I am deleting Chromium from my computer!

[jglen490]

Hmmmm ...

"Saved passwords

Your passwords from Chrome and Android are saved with Google Smart Lock and accessible to you across devices.

You don't have any passwords saved in Chrome, or you are not syncing them. Change settings."

O.K., but I'll keep this mind.

[GreyGeek]

KMail2 can't eat its own dog food!

So, after borking my 16.04 + Neon install by trying to switch to upstart (which was possible in 15.10 but is not possible in 16..04) I decided to reinstall Xenial. I used KMail2's export facility to export my emails into kmail_emails.zip file. I finished the install last night and this morning tried to import my emails from the zip KMail created. The Kmail import facility could NOT import its own exported file! I find this astounding since I imported over 5,000 files from an mbox file created by gmail before I canceled that service. Here is a image of the results.


I created all those "folders" (/note, /mails, /config, /data, etc...) shown in the progress dialog, and the "cur" subfolder under each. Didn't help..