Back Up Your Gmail

January 2nd, 2007

Recently some news emerged on the internet that some gmail users lost some or even all of their mails that have been in that account. There is no obvious way to backup the mail that exists in your gmail account. You could probably forward the important mail to another account but this solution is not truly that practicable.

Chris Brogan described another method which should be fine for most purposes. He suggests to create a pop3 account for gmail to be able to download all mail that is new in that account. Once downloaded you could backup the mailbox file and schedule the mail client that way that it is downloading mails from gmail regulary to reduce the chance that you lose mail. The steps to backup your gmail mails in detail:

Create a new pop3 account for gmail

Create a new acount in your mail client

Download the mail from your gmail account

Locate the gmail mailbox file and back it up

It is probably not necessary to backup the gmail mailbox locally. You could create a backup of all of your mail profiles instead which would be a better way I think.

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