On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Vinayak Hegde <vinay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have one from June 2004. That means I have 5 years worth of email on > gmail. What do people use here to backup their gmail account and what > is the preferred mailbox format. I tried thunderbird but the > connection would get reset every once in a while. Having to manually > get mail by clicking check/refresh was a major pain. > > Is there any easy painless way to backup / incremental backup in > format that is easily importable in a variety of clients ? > > -- Vinayak > > I used gmail-backup successfully for quite some time, but then ran into problems where it would choke on one email (never figured out which one) and refuse to progress. YMMV - http://www.gmail-backup.com/ -- Balaji