I can't explain how fed up I am about that. When I'm entering any date fields on my Gmail account, I'm always cautious. But this was YouTube. Enough rant.
Thanks for this tool! When my account comes back up, I'll use it to keep the data safe (I do have it in imap of course). And then at some point in the future I'll look for an alternative to Google.
What should Google do when you state you are under 13? If they pop up a message saying "Are you sure? All this cool stuff is going to go away if you say that you are under 13." it breaks the intent of the law and child advocacy groups would rightly eat Google for lunch.
I'd love to see:
- Better support for multiple accounts - at the moment I have to specify separate data directories manually every time I want to re-run a backup of each of my accounts. Would be great if Gmvault worked this out for me, and could run a backup on multiple accounts in a single run.
- Some way to read my backed up emails easily without re-importing them to Gmail - a mini mail server, a web-based UI, etc.
- A way to export to some other format if I want to migrate away to Gmail - mbox, etc.
I'm using offlineimap, which syncs an IMAP server with the MailDir-Format. The MailDir-Format should be readable by any email program.
I also realize it might not make sense to use Maildir as the native DB for Gmvault, since you don't want to store multiple copies of each email like OfflineIMAP does. A 'gmvault export' option would be sufficient for my purposes.
Let me know if there's anything I can do to help!