Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

Re:Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails by pdk on Monday May 07, 2012 @11:06AM (#3939275)

Is there a way to make Thunderbird or Mac's Mail do the same thing?

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Re:Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails by callahad on Monday May 07, 2012 @11:13AM (#3939303)

What do you mean? By default, both Thunderbird and Mail.app should fully download and locally save an archive of your mail.

To verify this in Thunderbird, check out Tools -> Account Settings, then go to the "Synchronization & Storage" page. Make sure it's set to "Keep messages for this accounts on this computer," "Synchronize all messages locally regardless of age," and "Don't delete any messages." You can click the "Advanced..." button if you only want to sync certain folders.

To force a sync, you can go to File -> Offline -> Download/Sync Now, but you shouldn't ever have to do that with the above settings.

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Re:Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails by camiller on Monday May 07, 2012 @11:28AM (#3939376)

Yes, but it won't keep the gmail labels etc. And I doubt it would do a restore to gmail.

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Re:Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails by probably on Monday May 07, 2012 @12:01PM (#3939536)

Ah, so this is the value-added proposition.

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