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If at some point in the future you need to prove that you received a given message, having the signatures (eg: DKIM) intact makes all the difference.
Serious question: have you ever needed an email from even 5 years ago? I only save financial statements and contact information. Everything else gets deleted as soon as possible.
"Five years ago" was 2020. What you're asking is, "Have you, at some point in 2025, needed an email from 2019, 2018, etc. (i.e. from some time before that)?" The answer: Yes, of course. (And I don't understand why anyone other than, say, a university undergrad or someone younger should find that answer surprising.)
Serious question: have you ever needed an email from even 5 years ago? I only save financial statements and contact information. Everything else gets deleted as soon as possible.
Maybe not “need” in the strictest sense, but there have been more times than I can count where digging up old mail has either made things much faster and easier or helped me answer a random question that popped into my head about something that happened ages ago. Old SMS, iMessage, Telegram etc messages have been useful from time to time too for similar reasons. Both can also serve as exceptional time capsules that p…
Serious question: have you ever needed an email from even 5 years ago? I only save financial statements and contact information. Everything else gets deleted as soon as possible.
Serious question: have you ever needed an email from even 5 years ago? I only save financial statements and contact information. Everything else gets deleted as soon as possible.
> Everything else gets deleted as soon as possible. What's the advantage to deleting? It's easy to ignore anything old and disk space is cheap. Do you delete old photos?
I keep photos, though I don't keep all photos. But emails and messages? Why...
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"Five years ago" was 2020. What you're asking is, "Have you, at some point in 2025, needed an email from 2019, 2018, etc. (i.e. from some time before that)?" The answer: Yes, of course. (And I don't understand why anyone other than, say, a university undergrad or someone younger should find that answer surprising.)
Near 50 and I can't say I need any email from 3 years ago; this is conservative, I'm probably ok with not needing emails from a year ago. Just like I don't need chat history either. What are you storing in your emails that you need to keep it beyond this? Genuinely interested. Genuinely have no clue why you'd be storing emails any length of time.
Isn't it easier to just backup via IMAP to maildir versioned with git? Does takeout include any metadata not accessible via IMAP? Does it even include labels?
What about using the Gmail API and listening for recent changes? I suppose it wouldn't be in a mailbox format that could be easily exported to another provider, though?