Re: archiving gmail

[Jon Molesa <rjmolesa () consoltec net>]

On 10/22/2012 5:05 AM, Robin Wood wrote:
> 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?

I use offlineimap and archivemail. Offlineimap even understands the
special Gmail folders.

-- 
Jon Molesa
rjmolesa () consoltec net

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