Re:Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
by bound008 on Thursday December 05, 2013 @04:26PM
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I am glad they did this, as a user who already left the big G earlier this year. Its wasn't a big priority though because of IMAP and ICS. I already got my data out. If anything, I hope this helps promote the MBOX format for quickly moving mail around vs. error prone IMAP transitions.
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Re:Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
by bad_user on Friday December 06, 2013 @02:38AM
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It's pretty cool do download an archive though, instead of going through IMAP, for archival purposes that is. I have a lot of email in my GMail, going back to 2005 I think. I'm afraid of accidentally deleting it, plus I also use other email clients, like Thunderbird and I'm always triple-checking settings to ensure it doesn't delete old emails. Having the option of doing a dump from time to time, for storage, is really cool.