Nov 11, 2026, 7:05 PMCan my GMail sorting rules be exported from GMail via Google Takeout? Can they be imported into… anything at all?
- Nov 11, 2026, 7:05 PM
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- Nov 11, 2026, 7:06 PM
Google Takeout is great as one of the last vestiges of Old Google but also a problem it has as one of the last vestiges of Old Google is it gives you a huge number of Mystery Files and I am not completely sure what is in them
I could spend two days doing digital forensics but so far have not
Ben Zaningnomon@mastodon.socialNov 11, 2026, 7:53 PM@mcc have you ever looked at RFC5528¹ ("Sieve: An Email Filter Language", 2008) and its later iterations and expansions? (And its 2001 precursor 3028 too, I suppose, for context.)
In principle that's the cross-mailsystem export target format you'd want.
In practice though I think much of Gmail's filtering is built atop their internal "label" data construct, which was never specified or broadly reimplemented, to my knowledge. Effectively not meaningfully exportable.
mlenmlen@hackerspace.plNov 11, 2026, 7:13 PM@mcc There was some xml export option too, directly in the ui afair
Christina Richardscdrichards@mathstodon.xyzNov 11, 2026, 10:13 PM