Who owns emails?

#1

Post by pirer » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 1:41 AM UTC

Who owns emails?
mailbackapp.com

Re: Who owns emails?

#2

Post by nobullet » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 2:10 AM UTC

Doesn't seem to work...

Re: Who owns emails?

#3

Post by ChuckMcM » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 2:12 AM UTC

Hmmm, not as effective a call for action as you might want. In part because under US law email delivered to your corporate address is a company asset, not a personal asset.

That said, there is a lot to be gained by having copies of your personal email (and metadata) handy. I am sure I am not unique in that I've got a script that uses imap to pull non-spam email into a temporally ordered store (a DVD-R :-) and a dynamically updated index (initially sqlite, now its more mysql). Still lose stuff of course :-).

Re: Who owns emails?

#4

Post by pirer » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 2:18 AM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #3

Hmmm, not as effective a call for action as you might want. In part because under US law email delivered to your corporate address is a company asset, not a personal asset. That said, there is a lot to be gained by having copies of your personal email (and metadata) handy. I am sure I am not unique in that I've got a script that uses imap to pull non-spam email into a temporally ordered store (a DVD-R :-) and a dynam…

Your quite unique. Just making a script for some people is extremely difficult.

Re: Who owns emails?

#5

Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 2:23 AM UTC

pirer wrote: post #4

ChuckMcM wrote: post #3

Hmmm, not as effective a call for action as you might want. In part because under US law email delivered to your corporate address is a company asset, not a personal asset. That said, there is a lot to be gained by having copies of your personal email (and metadata) handy. I am sure I am not unique in that I've got a script that uses imap to pull non-spam email into a temporally ordered store (a DVD-R :-) and a dynam…

Your quite unique. Just making a script for some people is extremely difficult.

http://gmvault.org/

For those who can't code or don't have the time.

Re: Who owns emails?

#6

Post by pirer » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 2:27 AM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #5

pirer wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your quite unique. Just making a script for some people is extremely difficult.

http://gmvault.org/ For those who can't code or don't have the time.

yep but you still need to know a few things as well as: https://github.com/abjennings/gmail-backup or http://www.fetchmail.info/ and https://github.com/Flushot/gmail-backup

Re: Who owns emails?

#7

Post by engates » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 2:27 AM UTC

this looks very shady to me.

Re: Who owns emails?

#8

Post by pirer » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 2:28 AM UTC

engates wrote: post #7

this looks very shady to me.

I personally guarantee that's not the case

Re: Who owns emails?

#9

Post by tommis » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 2:29 AM UTC

If I need to backup my emails, why wouldn't I use some dedicated solution I have control over? Example. http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx

Re: Who owns emails?

#10

Post by jaeysin » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 2:32 AM UTC

I agree, this doesn't really fill me with great confidence. There is no information about where the data is stored.. is it encrypted? Is it a company? And I am simply registered to pay $10 to be put into a waiting list?