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Why not download the mail and keep it locally, instead of accessing it only on the whims of Google security EPMs? A standard IMAP client will do this for you e
by valleyer 3y ago
Why not download the mail and keep it locally, instead of accessing it only on the whims of Google security EPMs?
A standard IMAP client will do this for you easily.
- ipqk 3y agoI do a Pop3 sync of all my email from gmail about once a month. It's not a perfect 1-to-1 mapping, but if I ever get locked out, only lose about a months worth of mail.
- romanhn 3y agoGood point. I had done this previously with my primary email, but it didn't occur to do the same here for some reason. I kicked off the Google Takeout process per another comment's suggestion.
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoOne should do that for all email addresses, even ones that one uses daily. You never know when you will be screwed over by your provider.
- netsharc 3y agoI got Yahoo! Mail in the 90's (when they started offering email, the world was so different and I thought a @yahoo.com address was a must have). A few years ago I thought I'd look at emails from my teenage years, and guess what, Yahoo silently lost all my emails before the year 2000/2001. If only I can find that 20GB IDE disk with all the data I've migrated since my first computer...
- romanhn 3y agoI'd suggest looking again - they might have lost the rest by now if you haven't been using it. They now delete all email if you haven't logged in for a year. I found out first-hand :(
- netsharc 3y agoNah, I look in it daily, I use it now as the address for online shops, etc. Which is a terrible idea because they can upload their data to Facebook (where I'm also registered with this email) and then both sides have a better marketing profile of me...
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoIs there a way to do this without flipping the unread flag to read? I tried doing this years ago with Yahoo email and the it started marking the unread emails as read.
- Thorrez 3y agoUsing IMAP? Did you read the emails on the other device? I thought IMAP synced the read state between devices.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoMaybe I did it wrong then. I tried syncing with Thunderbird some years back and it flipped everything to read. Or maybe that was a POP sync. I don't even remember anymore.