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Re: archiving gmail
From: Josh More <jmore () starmind org>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:55:15 -0500
I use getmail: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ You have to run it in a loop, as Google limits the number of messages you can pull at a time to around 100. (Sometimes it's 80ish, sometimes it's 120ish). I generally find that running: "for i in {1..20}; do getmail -r ~/.getmail/getmail.gmail; sleep 120; done" is sufficient for my backups every few weeks. I'm sure you could script this in a better way so it automatically stops when there's no more mail to get. Lazy script just uses a loop. :) -Josh More On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Alexandre DELOUP <alexandre.deloup () gmail com> wrote:
A french blogger (@Nicolargo) wrote a how-to to do an automatic and incremental backup of your Gmail account. You can find it there : http://blog.nicolargo.com/2012/08/sauvegarde-incrementale-et-automatise-de-votre-compte-gmail.html . In the case of you don't understand french, I could translate it for you ;-) quack1 @_Quack1 Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. PGP public key ID : 0xA26B95CD Le 22/10/2012 11:05, Robin Wood a écrit :I've been using gmail/google apps for years and according to their stats I've got over 7G stored in my mailbox. Thinking about all the hacks that have happened where mail spools have been dumped I reckon it would be a good idea to remove a lot of that data, maybe everything beyond 6 months old, but I don't want to delete it, just in case. So I was thinking of setting up some kind of offline backup which I could store encrypted and only open if I ever need to dig back through. I know this can be done manually with IMAP or POP3, pulling down the mails and then deleting them from the server and possibly using GPG to add them to the storage location. But I don't like doing things manually where they can be scripted so I was wondering if anything like this already existed before I start putting something together myself. Anyone know of anything? Robin _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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Current thread:
- archiving gmail Robin Wood (Oct 22)
- Re: archiving gmail Alexandre DELOUP (Oct 22)
- Re: archiving gmail Josh More (Oct 22)
- Re: archiving gmail Robin Wood (Oct 22)
- Re: archiving gmail Josh More (Oct 22)
- Re: archiving gmail Robin Wood (Oct 22)
- Re: archiving gmail Jonathan Cran (Oct 22)
- Re: archiving gmail Jonathan Cran (Oct 22)
- Re: archiving gmail Josh More (Oct 22)
- Re: archiving gmail Alexandre DELOUP (Oct 22)