Re: archiving gmail

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 22 October 2012 12:43, 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 ;-)

> From the little I can understand it looks like a write up of the tool
getmail - http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ - which does seem to do
most of what I need. I'll see if it has the ability to do date ranges
and to remove the mail after downloading it. If it can do both of
those then I've probably got a starting point.

Robin


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> 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?
> >
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