Ask HN: IMAP2Git

All mail clients suck. It seems every single one needs a lot of configuration effort to have a decent experience, most of them have really slow search, and several of them have unrecoverably deleted messages seemingly at random. I'm tempted to try managing my email using Git, one file per email. It'll be super fast and reliable, and I won't have to ever worry about losing my emails after they are safely copied to several separate devices. Is this feasible? Specifically:

- Is there any decent software to save all messages from the IMAP server to one file per message on a regular basis? They'd have to at least have some sensible filenames, like date + subject.

- Are there any Linux and Android clients which will read files from such a folder? I don't mind to `adb push` the repository if necessary, but if I have to read them using a text editor that'll be a blocker.