On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Ray Lopez <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 5, 2013 9:01:51 PM UTC+8, billhansen 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. >> > If you use a 3rd party mail client such as Mozilla Thunderbird, this is fairly trivial as it will create a local copy of the mailbox by default. The cloud is not safer at all. With the new FBI Ransomware virus that > contaminates your cloud drive, arguably it's even less safe, since users > would otherwise not make multiple copies of their HD as they would offline. > What has this got to do with Gmail? It is my experience that the majority of users a) do not perform regular backups and b) have no off-site backup. > > In recognition of this, Google will, this late winter or spring, allow > users to download all their Gmails and store them on their HD I've read. > They are working on the software to do this now, and it should be ready by > Feb of next year. > As Jeff has already posted, it is available now: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/download-copy-of-your-gmail-and-google.html -- 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.
