Online mail users without a software client should still make sure that their precious emails are backed up regularly to avoid data loss. Lifehacker mentioned the tool Gmail Backup which can be used by Gmail users to perform regular backups of all stored Gmail messages.
Gmail Backup will backup all Gmail mail folders and mails contained within including labels, dates and from fields. Before the backup can be started users have to enable IMAP in the Gmail settings. Once that nuisances is out of the way it is possible to backup all Gmail messages with minimal interaction. If desired a time interval can be set to restore only emails of a certain period and not all of them.
Interestingly enough emails will be stored in Microsoft’s eml format which makes it easy to import the messages into other mail clients. Gmail Backup provides an restore option to restore previously backed up emails; Not necessarily though to the same user account since the name and password of the user account can be specified freely whenever Gmail Backup is being used.
An alternative to using Gmail Backup would be to configure a regular email software client like Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook to retrieve messages from Gmail. There would not be an obvious restore option though for those messages.
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I wouldn’t trust entering my password into these third party programs, there was a similar program some time ago which sent the user details of everyone who used it to the creator’s GMail account.
I’ll keep my trust in Google, until I reach the cap, which I don’t foresee happening in my lifetime.
I was thinking the opposite, how to backup everything on google servers so I can be more secure.
I use Gmail Drive and I use it for those kind of things, backing up my stuff, I wish I have a space on google servers, with at least 100 mb per file, so I dont need to split things in 20 mb ( gmail attachment).
Please get gmail working
Today Gmail initially refused to authenticate my login and said “Your account is disabled,” followed by rather severe warnings against possible spammers.
Scared the living daylights out of me, and after re-initializing my browser and re-logging in, I immediately searched for a “Gmail Backup” program. 12 hours later it’s all backed up (as far back as 2004) and I feel much safer.
Folks, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s taken from you without recourse. Back up your Gmail now if you want to keep your sanity, especially since Google seems to have a problem with login authentication from time to time, as far back as Feb ‘07.
Nice program, but I need to backup the gmail frequently, how about add a scheduling function like the following one?
http://www.gmailkeeper.com
When your GMail box close to the limit, just open 1 more GMail account, and “get” the email (by POP3) from old account to your new account. Then you are safe to remove emails.
The reason why you don’t use a new one instead, is that it is hard to transfer all the settings to new GMail account. Also if you have already disclose the old email address already, it will be trouble to inform your friends again for the changes.
“There would not be an obvious restore option though for those messages.”
Sure there would! It’s called USING THE SAME PROGRAM YOU USED TO DOWNLOAD THE MESSAGES… !
People easiest way to backup is to use the forward function.. Create another gmail account and forward everything that comes into your email to the new account.
I use Opera’s Mail Client to backup all of my mailing accounts from Yahoo and Gmail.
No this actually works..
It helped me to take back up.
This app rocks..!