I use getmail: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/
You have to run it in a loop, as Google limits the number of messages
you can pull at a time to around 100. (Sometimes it's 80ish,
sometimes it's 120ish).
I generally find that running: "for i in {1..20}; do getmail -r
~/.getmail/getmail.gmail; sleep 120; done" is sufficient for my
backups every few weeks.
I'm sure you could script this in a better way so it automatically
stops when there's no more mail to get. Lazy script just uses a loop.
:)
-Josh More
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Alexandre DELOUP
<[email protected]> wrote:
> A french blogger (@Nicolargo) wrote a how-to to do an automatic and
> incremental backup of your Gmail account. You can find it there :
> http://blog.nicolargo.com/2012/08/sauvegarde-incrementale-et-automatise-de-votre-compte-gmail.html
> .
> In the case of you don't understand french, I could translate it for you ;-)
>
> quack1
> @_Quack1
>
> Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are.
> PGP public key ID : 0xA26B95CD
>
> Le 22/10/2012 11:05, Robin Wood a écrit :
>> I've been using gmail/google apps for years and according to their
>> stats I've got over 7G stored in my mailbox. Thinking about all the
>> hacks that have happened where mail spools have been dumped I reckon
>> it would be a good idea to remove a lot of that data, maybe everything
>> beyond 6 months old, but I don't want to delete it, just in case. So I
>> was thinking of setting up some kind of offline backup which I could
>> store encrypted and only open if I ever need to dig back through.
>>
>> I know this can be done manually with IMAP or POP3, pulling down the
>> mails and then deleting them from the server and possibly using GPG to
>> add them to the storage location. But I don't like doing things
>> manually where they can be scripted so I was wondering if anything
>> like this already existed before I start putting something together
>> myself. Anyone know of anything?
>>
>> Robin
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