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Re:ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? by bkbleikamp on Saturday November 01, 2008 @10:01PM (#351085)
solution to make this less painful if it happens to you: setup a script (i have a python script) that uses fetchmail to pull your gmail everyday after a certain time (i use 9pm since most of my emailing is finished after 9pm).

worst case scenario you lose 24 hours of emails.

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Re:ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? by tocomment on Saturday November 01, 2008 @11:46PM (#351157)
Could you write up a tutorial on how to do that? Getmail also looks promising but the config section of it's documentation is like 12 pages long. I just want to backup Gmail, dude.
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Re:ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? by bkbleikamp on Saturday November 01, 2008 @11:51PM (#351158)
This is ironic, but...Google it :)

Also getmail is easy to install with MacPorts.

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Re:ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? by axod on Sunday November 02, 2008 @04:39AM (#351277)
Well in this case I've also lost the ability to login to blogger, youtube, adsense, adwords.

This is one massive argument against unified logins for a start.

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