If you are using Thunderbird, the definitive guide is: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=75725
That will set Thunderbird to read your mail. At that point, selecting all your messages and moving them to a local folder should be fairly straightforward (assuming you've worked with Thunderbird or similar enough to know how to create folders and move messages into them.) A web search also turns up fairly good instructions for how to do the same with the text-based mailer Mutt... -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
