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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by rwalle on Saturday December 24, 2022 @05:45PM (#34121929)
Not a problem?

All your previous emails are lost, aren't they? Even you have local backup of them somehow, they are not equivalent to emails saved to your server?

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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by xuki on Saturday December 24, 2022 @06:11PM (#34122138)
If you have a local back up and the provider supports IMAP, you can just sync it back to the new provider.
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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by edmundsauto on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:04PM (#34122562)
Losing backups is problematic, but IMO the bigger issue is losing access. I care 10x more about emails that I haven't received yet, compared to my history. I am still not wanting to lose that history... but it is just not as big a deal.
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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by nephanth on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:47PM (#34122856)
If you're using an email client, chances are you have an offline copy of your emails (depending on how you configured it)
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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by yumraj on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:36AM (#34125992)
The only way to cover that case is run your own mail server.

I've done that in the past, don't recommend it unless you have a real need and know what you're doing. It wasn't hard, but just extra work that I wasn't sure was worth it.

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