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> Google can terminate an account any time without any reason, if they do that, I won’t lose access the e-mails I’ve received or sent. A) Assuming you keep cop
by eblanshey 7y ago
> Google can terminate an account any time without any reason, if they do that, I won’t lose access the e-mails I’ve received or sent.
A) Assuming you keep copies of all folders/emails locally
B) Assuming Google isn't evil and won't delete all your mail first before shutting down your account, thus causing your IMAP client to sync their deletion
- Const-me 7y agoA) Yes I do B) I’m not sure Google ain’t evil. Even if they’re good, if I fail security on my side, some other evil person, unrelated to google, may be able to delete all my e-mails before shutting down my gmail account. That’s why e-mail client alone is good but not enough, also need backups of that local DB.
- eblanshey 7y agoAgreed. Just pointing out the fact that IMAP alone isn't enough. Nothing replaces backups (whether from your IMAP client or from Google's own backup service.)
- NotSammyHagar 7y agoGoogle doesn't go out of their way to screw people. The problem is their automated spammer systems pick up people and kill their accounts and all their google accounts and you are stuck. That's the problem. There's no human to talk to. It's been a problem for more than a decade.
- Const-me 7y agoI think by "Google's own backup service" they meant takeout, not the tapes google probably uses internally.
- krageon 7y ago> Google doesn't go out of their way to screw people We can't know that. There is no recourse when they do screw people and it would look the same from the outside whether it was an automated system or a manual one (or more likely, a mix of both).
- romwell 7y agoA)Why wouldn't you? B)That's why you do backups. (In the same vein as RAID is not a backup, IMAP by itself isn't one too). An easy way to do that is to have an IMAP client on another machine that you sync manually.