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Admittedly email has also been in my blind spot too.. Not a bad plan that.

by corobo 10y ago

Klathmon 10y ago
Here 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 ago
  What format does this produce? A bit of googling suggests mbox. What happens to 'labels' on emails?
  - ocdtrekkie 10y ago
    MBOX is correct. Labels become folders. Mail that has multiple labels will be duplicated into each folder.
  - SlashmanX 10y ago
    If you click "details" you can see the format each service is exported as
- soft_dev_person 10y ago
  Nice tool, and can produce archive directly to Dropbox (or Drive, or OneDrive). Now, if they only could add a periodic option...
vertis 10y ago
I 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 ago
  this looks interesting. Does it also restore to another IMAP provider?
  - avtar 10y ago
    mbsync [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 ago
  The 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 ago
    A 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/
- smonff 10y ago
  I started deleting my emails and I feel really better that this big stack of crap is erased forever. The whole concept of archiving mail is disgusting. Everybody is concerned by climate change, but seriously, storing all these data is crazy and dirty, a datacenter is everything but clean. No backups to deal with and no procrastination-until-the-end-of-your-life. Save the planet and get away from your past.

Admittedly email has also been in my blind spot too.. Not a bad plan that.

by corobo 10y ago

Admittedly email has also been in my blind spot too.. Not a bad plan that.

Here 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 ago
What format does this produce? A bit of googling suggests mbox. What happens to 'labels' on emails?
- ocdtrekkie 10y ago
  MBOX is correct. Labels become folders. Mail that has multiple labels will be duplicated into each folder.
- SlashmanX 10y ago
  If you click "details" you can see the format each service is exported as
soft_dev_person 10y ago
Nice tool, and can produce archive directly to Dropbox (or Drive, or OneDrive). Now, if they only could add a periodic option...

vertis 10y ago

I 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 ago
this looks interesting. Does it also restore to another IMAP provider?
- avtar 10y ago
  mbsync [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 ago
The 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 ago
  A 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/
smonff 10y ago
I started deleting my emails and I feel really better that this big stack of crap is erased forever. The whole concept of archiving mail is disgusting. Everybody is concerned by climate change, but seriously, storing all these data is crazy and dirty, a datacenter is everything but clean. No backups to deal with and no procrastination-until-the-end-of-your-life. Save the planet and get away from your past.