Re: [PLUG] How are you backing up your Gmail?

On 10/10/07, zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com > wrote:

On 10/10/07, Russ Wenner <russwenner@gmail.com > wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I would like to make a local backup of my "All Mail" folder in Gmail.
> Has anyone found a practical way to do this?  Standard searches on
> Google and delicious have not turned up *the perfect app* :-(

I don't think a "perfect app" exists.  I doubt labels or stars can be
preserved with the current API; at best they can be re-created by hand
(e.g. re-implement filter rules in your MUA).

my assumption of the Gmail "filesystem" hack was that it stores data
via UUencode / YEnc like alt.binaries on USENET, but via SMTP and
POP3.

so, there's really only POP3 and Gmail is weird about that for
everyone I've talked too -- sending emails in "bursts" rather than
actually sending all new mail until the MUA matches the remote
mailbox.  I'm thinking some kind of persistent fetching and redundant
comparisons will be necessary to achieve near-100% dumping of emails
even.  if anyone has tips on *that* I'd like to hear them.
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