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As great as export features are, I imagine it's the thing hackers who compromise an account will go straight for.
I had to use gmvault (gmvault.org/) to make a copy of my gmail; it was quite doable.
Pasted from http://www.webmonkey.com/2008/11/simple_solutions_to_help_yo...
"Create some backup accounts — This one is so obvious I’m always surprised to hear that not everyone does it. Gmail is free and lets you have an unlimited number accounts… so open a second one. Mine is just my usual account with .bak appended to the username. Once that’s set up, login to your primary account and either enable forwarding for all messages (Settings >> Forwarding and POP/IMAP) or create filters to only forward the messages you really care about. Then just send those messages on to the backup account.
I use my main Gmail account to manage five e-mail addresses, so I used the filters method and only back up a couple of them (the others are already backed up on the original domain’s mail server). I also have the forwarding set up to pass messages along to a Yahoo Mail account, an account on my own server and even a good old Hotmail account (or Windows Live Mail as it’s known these days).
This setup is like a good investment portfolio, think of it as e-mail diversification — your’re hedging your bets by spreading your mail around to several servers. If something goes wrong on one account, just login to another. I don’t login to the other accounts much, so they aren’t as carefully filtered, organized and de-spammed as my main Gmail account, but at least my mail is there"
Also, holy crap, it's great to see MBOX going strong after 20 odd years.
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Wait, so you weren't backing up your email account?
Wait, how many people back up their gmail account?
As a personal google mail user I use offlineimap to synchronise with a local maildir for both redundancy and reading my emails.
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20070329131522/http://diveintomar...
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Wait, how many people back up their gmail account?
raises hand http://gmvault.org/ How does anyone get upset when something they're not paying for stops working?
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raises hand http://gmvault.org/ How does anyone get upset when something they're not paying for stops working?
You definitely pay for gmail. Paraphrasing Heinlein, you pay for it other than with money.
This is great news. Unfortunately downloading my Gmail content isn't listed as an option. I hope this isn't another case of Google App accounts not getting new features.
We are rolling this feature out slowly, right now only about 1% of people have access to Takeout's of GMail. But we hope to increase it to 100%, including Google Apps accounts (if your administrator hasn't blocked it) over the next couple weeks.
Thank you, Google. Glad to hear that the Data Liberation Front is alive and well: http://www.dataliberation.org/ From 2006: "We would never trap user data," he [Schmidt] said. [1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-we-wou...
I have ambivalent feelings about this. All in all, this is my stuff.