On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Balaji Dutt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Vinayak Hegde <[email protected]> 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/
Yes I had a similar issue as well. I tried restarting it several times before giving up. -- Vinayak
