GMail Backup

A free CLI program that will allow you to easily backup and restore your GMail mailbox
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  • Rating:
  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • GMail Backup Team
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.gmail-backup.com/
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X
  • File Size:
  • 74 KB

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GMail Backup Description

A free CLI program that will allow you to easily backup and restore your GMail mailbox In order for GMail Backup to work you will need to activate the IMAP access to your mailbox. To do so, please open your GMail settings and under POP/IMAP tab activate this option. The messages are stored in the local directory in files which names follow the format YYYYMMDD-hhmmss-nn.eml where YYYY is the year, MM the month number, DD is the day number, hh are hours, mm are minutes and ss are seconds when the e-mail was SENT. For the case there is more emails with the same timestamp there is the number nn which starts with value 1. Label assignment is stored in the file labels.txt which is the plain text file and it pairs the emails stored in the file described above with the assigned labels.Reasons to backup:Outage of Google e-mail serviceIf you noticed yesterday outage of the Google e-mail service, it was an error on your side. Google had a bug in the system of contacts and it caused malfunction of the web interface of Gmail. Failure of the service lasted approximately two hours and affected mainly web interface. Users, who accessed their mailbox in alternative ways, probably did not notice any problems.This time you do not have to worry about the e-mails, the archive has not been affected by this bug. Bug was removed and Gmail is fully functioning now. Although there is no data loss, we should be careful.Why you should backup your GMail accountThere is a lot of posts around the internet which refers to the e-mail lost caused by the outage of the service provider. If you are using the GMail, you have to keep in mind that GMail is still marked as BETA (see the small notice bellow the GMail logo). Today I have found this article about the large GMail disaster. Requirements: · GMail account What's New in This Release: · Added support for German GMail - this GMail is not called GMail, it is called Google Mail. Users of German Google Mail can now do backups of their accounts using GMail Backup. · Tried to fix the UnicodeError reported here.


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