Documentation

Run MailCarbon using the GUI

Download the jar package.

Launch it by double clicking on the file or running the following comand in a terminal: java -jar mailcarbon-bin-vx_x.jar

The window is composed of 3 main columns:

1. On the left: the source configuration
2. In the middle: Global options
3. On the right: The destination configuration

The truncate option

This option is used to truncate folder length. It is usefull when copying emails to gmail. Gmail do no use folders but labels. When you connect to your gmail account using your fovorite imap client and you create a new folder, on gmail it is not a folder but a label which is created.

Here is an example:

I want to create a new folder named myFolder. On my imap client, I will see my INBOX folder and inside it a new one called myFolder. But on gmail, it's a label called INBOX.myFolder

This label can't have more than 40 chars on gmail. So, the truncate option truncate the size of the label before copying emails to it.

The folder named INBOX/myFirstLevel/mySecondLevel/myThirdLevel/andSoMore will be converted into a label named INBOX.myFirstLevel.mySecondLevel.myThird

Run MailCarbon using the command line

Download the mailcarbon-bin-vx_x.zip package.

Run this command for all availables options: ./mailcarbon-console.sh --help

The --max-length option corresponds to the truncate option of the GUI.