after trying for 90 minutes to connect to accounts.google.com last night, with over twenty refreshes, finally obtaining just the HTML of a page then having to spend ANOTHER hour just to get the matching CSS... only to run into HTTP proxy problems and having to clear the cache and DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN....
... i'm absolutely sick and tired of the fucking fucked internet here, how it's interfering with my ability to communicate, get source code and much more.
so, i'm converting to offline imap, setting up the "prayer webmail" client, a cyrus imap server, and syncing everything to my laptop now i have the spare space on the 500GB SSD.
the only thing is... well... look at the numbers:
Folder INBOX [acc: lkcl]: Copy message UID 143 (98/155030) Remote:INBOX -> Local Folder INBOX.bak.sent [remote name [Gmail]/Sent Mail] [acc: lkcl]: Copy message UID 307 (116/55244) Remote:[Gmail]/Sent Mail -> Local Folder INBOX.bak.flagged [remote name [Gmail]/Starred] [acc: lkcl]: Copy message UID 508 (161/3185) Remote:[Gmail]/Starred -> Local Folder INBOX.bak.important [remote name [Gmail]/Important] [acc: lkcl]: Copy message UID 296 (114/51381) Remote:[Gmail]/Important -> Local
that's nearly 10 GIGABYTES of mail over a ten year period (i created the gmail account in 2006 when i was running out of space on my laptop to hold all the email i had in mutt Maildirs).
55 *thousand* messages in the "sent mail" folder. a hundred and fifty five thousand in the inbox.
after hacking offlineimap so that it would only use HTTPS proxy for connecting to accounts.google.com but would connect direct to imap.gmail.com (using a fixed IP address because the china government MODIFIES the DNS entries to point to the wrong locations...)....
... i was able to initiate the download / sync process. connectivity is so fucking slow it's about one message every... two to five seconds. at this rate it's going to take TWO HUNDRED hours to sync the entire mailbox. that's ten DAYS for god's sake.
we may actually have to go stay in a hotel in hong kong (where they have a 100 mbytes / sec internet connection) just so i can sync all the email.
dang.
l.