The three minutes was for how long it takes to setup Thunderbird to backup your Gmail. I'm very happy with Gmail and it's way better than all the other e-mail

The three minutes was for how long it takes to setup Thunderbird to backup your Gmail. I'm very happy with Gmail and it's way better than all the other e-mail services that various entities force me to use, but the point I was making is that I could move out of Gmail with all my data if I wanted to. > so there is no way you can ever take it anywhere else The standard solution is to setup a google apps on your domain.