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My wife subscribed to an online, Quicken-like service a few years ago that went under, and then refused to allow her to download her information. After that, s
by steve8918 15y ago
My wife subscribed to an online, Quicken-like service a few years ago that went under, and then refused to allow her to download her information. After that, she realized how vulnerable her data was, since she has no clue who has her data, or what happened to it.
I don't use Dropbox or any online file service for exactly this reason.
I should really download all my gmail, but it's a major hassle having to take care of that, but I realize that's another major point of failure for me.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoJust use IMAP instead of or as well as the webmail interface. Configure your IMAP client to download all your mail locally. This is not a major hassle if you actually care about retaining access to your email.
- steve8918 15y agoyes, I know I can use POP to download my mail, but the thing I've found is that it creates a huge, fragmented multi-gigabyte mail file in Thunderbird, which is annoying to have to take care of. But yes, I realize #firstworldproblems :)
- mike-cardwell 15y agoA quick search for "imap to maildir sync" shows up several free apps for syncing between IMAP and Maildir. That way, each email would live in its own file. Might be more manageable.
- sixothree 15y agoI believe windows live mail works this way as well.
- simcop2387 15y agoIf you've got linux, or probably even OSX or cygwin, fetchmail is almost trivial to setup to do a single run to do this. Read more about it at [1] [1] http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/97/using-fetchmail-and-procmail-for-maildir-style-storage-from-a-pop3-account/ http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/97/using-fetc...