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They closed his email-account too, though? It has never occurred to me to backup my entire Gmail archive. Should probably look into that now...
by soft_dev_person 10y ago
They closed his email-account too, though? It has never occurred to me to backup my entire Gmail archive. Should probably look into that now...
- corobo 10y agoAdmittedly email has also been in my blind spot too.. Not a bad plan that.
- Klathmon 10y agoHere is a one-click service to backup everything in your google account. Email, google drive, youtube, location history, blogger blogs, bookmarks, calendar, literally ever google service. https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
- pjc50 10y agoWhat format does this produce? A bit of googling suggests mbox. What happens to 'labels' on emails?
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoMBOX is correct. Labels become folders. Mail that has multiple labels will be duplicated into each folder.
- SlashmanX 10y agoIf you click "details" you can see the format each service is exported as
- soft_dev_person 10y agoNice tool, and can produce archive directly to Dropbox (or Drive, or OneDrive). Now, if they only could add a periodic option...
- vertis 10y agoI started archiving all my emails a long while back. There are several good tools around, but I'm currently using offlineimap[1][2]. Easily installable via homebrew. [1]: http://www.offlineimap.org/ http://www.offlineimap.org/ [2]: https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap
- therealmarv 10y agothis looks interesting. Does it also restore to another IMAP provider?
- avtar 10y agombsync [1] is worth looking into. I found it to perform better than Offline IMHO and complained less. It will store downloaded emails in maildir format. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Isync https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Isync
- derekp7 10y agoThe one gap here, is that if Google closes down your email account you can still be dead in the water if you have any services that rely on that email. Such as email based 2-factor authentication, or any websites that you forgot your credentials for an need to rely on an emailed password reset. You can mitigate this by having your own domain and host the email on Google Apps -- that way if they take away your access you just update your mx record to point to somewhere else. But you can also easily lose your domain name (due to malice or accident). BTW, if an emergency does happen, anyone have a recommendation for a decent web email client that I can point my MX record to? Preferably one that has both hosted and self-hosted options. Or something that I can spin up easily on a cloud service such as AWS.
- webtechgal 10y agoA couple of open source clients [1] and [2]- both self-hosted and deployable on AWS or any other cloud service, or any other hosting service with ssh root access: [1] https://squirrelmail.org/about/ https://squirrelmail.org/about/ [2] https://www.horde.org/apps/webmail https://www.horde.org/apps/webmail As an aside, VestaCP [3] - an open source hosting admin panel that you can install within a few minutes via ssh - will install squirrelmail automatically: [3] http://vestacp.com/ http://vestacp.com/
- Bromskloss 10y agoSpeaking of that, what is the best way to make a backup of the contents of an email account (not specifically Gmail, but IMAP in general)?
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- duerrp 10y agoNot sure if it's the best way or not, but I use offlineimap...
- sandij 10y agoAn easy way is to use an IMAP client like the macOS Mail.app that syncs raw email + metadata in .mbox format. You can find the files in ~/Library/Mail/V4. Combine with Time Machine for extra backups in case you’re worried that your mail server decides to clear your local copy over IMAP.
- JohnTHaller 10y agoAny hosted email account can be disappeared without recourse. Particularly a free one where the company owes you nothing.