Ray's post RE: POP vs IMAP scares me. I've always assumed that my Archived mail would remain on the Google servers even if my Gmail account were hacked. Now, I guess that's not true, and my archives would be gone if the account were hacked.
I'm just a very old guy who switched to Gmail a year or so ago, because of unresolvable problems with Outlook - the ultimate non-technical home user. I access email from two different computers on a LAN, and also from a tablet computer which is on the LAN at home, but accesses Gmail via Verizon when I'm away from home. I back up the HDs several times a week, but If I lost the archived mail I've accumulated in the past year, it would be a real hardship - but I don't know how to back that up to my HD. Is it even possible to back up Gmail archives unless one is clever enough to choose IMAP at the time one begins to use Gmail? FWIW - my Gmail comes directly to me, without going through a second email client such as Thunderbird, etc. Is there a way to back up emails without going through a second email client? Is there a way to back up my current archives ? On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Ray Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's background for you non-techies on IMAP (Gmail) vs POP (Outlook): > https://www.bol.ucla.edu/services/email/popvsimap.html > > In general, IMAP gives you more "power" at the cost of being more > "dangerous" to your ability to control your email. For example (one > example of many), what happens when somebody hacks your Gmail account and > you cannot get in? All your emails are forever lost. By contrast, with > POP you cannot lose your emails unless you are so foolish that you don't > backup your hard drive, which few people are that foolish anymore. > > Let's face it: most IMAP enthusiasts are what I would consider light-PC > users, such as teens, non-business people, grandma, traveling salespeople > who live for the moment and don't really need accurate email trails except > what is recorded up to the closing of a deal, or simply Google enthusiasts > like on this board. Nobody serious by my definition (granted, your > definition of serious may vary). > > Nuff said. > > RL > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
