GYB 0.40

GYB 0.40 is a beta release and may not be as stable as 0.31. If you encounter issues, downgrade to 0.40.

• Major rewrite of GYB. No more IMAP. GYB now uses Gmail API
  • Gmail API is much simpler to use.
  • Gmail API has better support for unicode label names.
  • Gmail API supports batch operations which improve the performance of backup and restore operations.
  • Gmail API supports advanced features like migrating mail directly to Google Vault.

Caveats:

• GYB 0.40 is NOT backward compatible. It cannot backup/restore folders created with older versions of GYB. Backwards compatibility will be launched again in the future.
• GYB 0.40 does not handle all connection / server errors perfectly yet. It may crash on a backup / restore but you should be able to restart where it left off.

GYB 0.31

• Fix service account errors about unsupported PEM.
• Switch from py2exe to pyinstaller for Windows releases.

GYB 0.30

• Fix for URL Shortener errors

GYB 0.29

• fix issue that prevented GYB from detecting the All Mail IMAP folder
• make sure GYB ignores extra data returned by the IMAP server

GYB 0.28

• Fix issue that was preventing restores to an account other than the one backed up.

GYB 0.27

• New "--action quota" displays mailbox max size and usage (usage includes other products like Drive and G+ photos)
• Handle Spam/Trash on --action "mbox-restore"
• Various other bug fixes and improvements

GYB 0.26

• Automatic notification of new GYB releases.
• restore-mbox labels Chats as "Restored Chats" since the Chats label can't be written to.
• --noresume no longer fails if there's not a restore database already.
• cleaner message counting on restore-mbox

GYB 0.25

• Fix for @googlemail.com and other accounts that may use [Google Mail] IMAP namespace
• Fix for handling of drafts on restore-mbox

GYB 0.24

• GYB now does a better job of selecting the account you specified for authentication.
• fixed Important label on restore-mbox
• new --strip-labels argument prevents GYB from restoring any labels except those specified with --label-restored.

GYB 0.23

• new action restore-mbox can restore messages from Gmail Takeout and Google Vault exports.
• new action purge-labels can delete all labels in an account.
• restoring a message to a child label like coworkers/Susan will now make sure the parent label (coworkers) is created so that the labels collapse properly in Gmail.
• Gmail searches are now unicode compliant. Searches with non-English characters should now work.
• A few crashes on restore have been fixed.