Option for gmailctl download to "download" a local XML file

[macintacos]

Effectively what I'm trying to do is just import an existing XML file and have it converted to gmailctl's config, just like gmailctl download does for the remote filter XML. Unfortunately, I cannot connect gmailctl directly to my Google account at work, so I want to do the manual export/import dance, but I have a ton of filters already set up that I want to start from.

Effectively, I want something like a --file option for gmailctl download, to tell gmailctl where to "download" the filters from, which in this case would be a local file (although I do admit, that sounds a bit weird saying it out loud, "downloading" a local file). Would this be possible?

[mbrt]

What you're saying makes sense. I would call this import as I think download --file sounds weird.

The issue here is that the way we download filters from Gmail is through the API, which doesn't use the XML format. We only have an exporter to XML, so this would need to be implemented.

I don't think this is very hard, but it takes a bit of time and testing. Potential contributions here are welcome :)

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