On Fri, 6 Dec 2013, Roger Clarke wrote: Hi Roger. A few comments on the article below...
> Google now lets you download your Gmail and Calendar data > SARAH SILBERT > 5 December 2013 > http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/05/download-your-gmail-and-calendar-data/ > > Starting today, Google's rolling out the ability to export copies of > your Gmail data in the MBOX format for backing up or moving to > another service. That's good and all but Gmail has supported IMAP for a long time (ok the IMAP is apparently a little non-standard but at least one Linux based IMAP client understands the differences). It should be possible to connect to Gmail IMAP with a tool like imapsync to backup email in Gmail. I've been using this approach with Yahoo mail for a family member for quite some time. IMAP is really the canonical way to migrate email. The biggest problem with migrating email is format conversion and guess what IMAP does? :) Cheers, Rob -- Email: [email protected] Linux counter ID #16440 IRC: Solver (OFTC & Freenode) Web: http://www.pracops.com Information behaves like a gas _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
