Is it just me or does anyone else think that Google is possibly thinking of dropping Gmail service as well? Think Google Reader.
Gmail is one of Google's core services...they couldn't just kill it off.
Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
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Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
#92For anyone looking to an alternative method, there is a great open source Python script called Bagoma that incrementally backs up your Gmail account: http://bagoma.sourceforge.net/ . Each email is stored as an individual text file rather than the mbox format. I have backed up my account with it every few days for a couple of years and it works great. It will even restore your account to Gmail if you need to switch ac…
An alternative to this would be fetchmail and maildrop. The MTA (fetchmail) downloads the messages periodically and delivers them to the MDA (maildrop) which can store them in Maildir format (each mail is an individual file). Fetchmail actually has weird bugs with some mails, so I made my own version in Perl, but there's other options out there. Alternatives: http://imapsync.lamiral.info/ http://offlineimap.org/ http…
Please don't use fetchmail -- it loses data. Use offlineimap or mbsync instead.
Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
#93Thank 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...
"We would never trap user data" No, we just use a different definition of "user data" than most privacy and civil rights laws. Or can I soon expect to be able to download all the data anything from Google+ buttons, YouTube to Doubleclick ads have gathered on me?
Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed but it takes time, effort and money to make sure that you can take your stuff with you.
Yes, after all, you already could access your email via imap and do the backup by yourself.
Until you get the "lockdown in sector 4" error message and have to sit in the timeout corner to start again. It took me over 48 hours to actually download all my mail out of gmail. (about two years ago.)
Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
#95Unfortunately this requires you to be able to log in. I had an account (with the same name I use here) mysteriously stop being able to log in about 6 years ago. I lost all of my email, contacts, and calendars. I was never able to find out why the account was shut down, I'm guessing it was a ToS violation for something I did several months before I got banned (made 100+ gmail accounts with my invites, didn't use them…
Would you like to be able to access your mails without having to log in?
No, I would like for this tool to work with deactivated accounts so that data can be retrieved in the event of Google deciding to deactivate the account.
Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed but it takes time, effort and money to make sure that you can take your stuff with you.
Yes, after all, you already could access your email via imap and do the backup by yourself.
Have you actually tried? There is throttling in place, meaning it can take ages depending on your account size.
Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
#97Maildir please.
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Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
#98For anyone looking to an alternative method, there is a great open source Python script called Bagoma that incrementally backs up your Gmail account: http://bagoma.sourceforge.net/ . Each email is stored as an individual text file rather than the mbox format. I have backed up my account with it every few days for a couple of years and it works great. It will even restore your account to Gmail if you need to switch ac…
FWIW I needed to do this to back up business emails when I closed down my last shop. At the time, all the open source projects I found didn't manage to correctly download ALL messages. I was finally able to do it by doing an HTML inject, and using JS to load each email iteratively.
Did you try bagoma? When was this?
Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
An alternative to this would be fetchmail and maildrop. The MTA (fetchmail) downloads the messages periodically and delivers them to the MDA (maildrop) which can store them in Maildir format (each mail is an individual file). Fetchmail actually has weird bugs with some mails, so I made my own version in Perl, but there's other options out there. Alternatives: http://imapsync.lamiral.info/ http://offlineimap.org/ http…
Please don't use fetchmail -- it loses data. Use offlineimap or mbsync instead.
Citation?
Re: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
#100Unfortunately this requires you to be able to log in. I had an account (with the same name I use here) mysteriously stop being able to log in about 6 years ago. I lost all of my email, contacts, and calendars. I was never able to find out why the account was shut down, I'm guessing it was a ToS violation for something I did several months before I got banned (made 100+ gmail accounts with my invites, didn't use them…
I had a similar experience with github. https://twitter.com/excelsiores/status/408239093328269312
support@github simply doesn't reply. Apparently, creating https://github.com/excelsiores/geek-misandry was enough to get me onto their "block and never reply to this user" list.
Sad times. Wish they provided some way to export data before kicking off users like this.