Actually Bill, through things like POP and IMAP it's always been available (as long as those protocols were available to GMail, which is nearly the entire time GMail has existed); but they just posted a blog post today which actually makes it even easier. I believe someone else copied the blog post into this forum.
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:01 AM, bill hansen <[email protected]>wrote: > Aah - that (loss of all previous gmails) would be a tragedy for most of > us. The lack of ability to save or archive essential emails to our own HDs > is a serious shortcoming in gmail. I know - most people, including me, > realize that "The Cloud" is usually safer than one's own HD. But being able > to save a few essentials locally would be a big advantage. > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Marko Vukovic <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Try clear your cache and cookies (Ctrl-Shift-Del) and sign in again. >> Hopefully just a glitch. >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Les Hassell <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I mean everything... new and old messages in the inbox, trashed >>> messages, spam messages, saved messages, drafts archives, everything from >>> 2005 until just a couple of hours ago is gone. The only thing that keeps it >>> from looking like a brand new account is that all my contacts are still >>> there and I didn't get a "welcome to gmail" message. I've found some >>> similar cases by searching but nothing very recent and nothing that >>> suggests a way to get every thing back. Has this happened to anyone else >>> recently and is there any recourse? >>> >>> TIA >>> Les >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Marko >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
