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Re:What happens to your files when a cloud service dies? by steve8918 on Friday January 20, 2012 @09:40AM (#3489575)
yes, I know I can use POP to download my mail, but the thing I've found is that it creates a huge, fragmented multi-gigabyte mail file in Thunderbird, which is annoying to have to take care of. But yes, I realize #firstworldproblems :)
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Re:What happens to your files when a cloud service dies? by mike-cardwell on Friday January 20, 2012 @09:50AM (#3489608)
A quick search for "imap to maildir sync" shows up several free apps for syncing between IMAP and Maildir. That way, each email would live in its own file. Might be more manageable.
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Re:What happens to your files when a cloud service dies? by simcop2387 on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:59AM (#3489880)
If you've got linux, or probably even OSX or cygwin, fetchmail is almost trivial to setup to do a single run to do this. Read more about it at [1]

[1] http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/97/using-fetc...

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Re:What happens to your files when a cloud service dies? by sixothree on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:25AM (#3489734)
I believe windows live mail works this way as well.
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