As far as I know there is a policy saying that you are not supposed to used
GMAIL for backup purposes, and that they can remove the account doing this
so. I think it is cheap enough to buy 1TB of external HD...

Tamas





On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Tobias Gogolin <usertogo@gmail.com> wrote:

> I suppose if I did this from the beginning and always popped off all the
> mail from the gmail server it could work, but I am concerned that popping 7
> GB might be too much for the client?
>
> Is there any client you recommend and that also manages the folding of
> threads like Gmail does it?
>
> 'Gmail Backup' is nice in the way that it can selectively backup from a
> date
> to a date (http://www.gmail-backup.com/)
> Then I compress the year segments and file them... or if I get a new hard
> disk I  might put it all in one folder and seartch it if needed!
> I haven't really checked if attachments come down correctly though!
>
> With pop this should be no issue right?
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Herbert Graf <hkgraf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 23:01 +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Herbert Graf<hkgraf@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 01:08 -0700, Tobias Gogolin wrote:
> > > >> Hi folks I'm running out of storage space (>7GB) on my Gmail
> account.
> > > >> Regrettably the tools to manage my account and select all mails
> before
> > a
> > > >> certain date for example seem to not exist...
> > > >>
> > > >> over the last few day I have downloaded all my 7GB using a program
> > called
> > > >> "Gmail Backup'
> > > >> Now I'm going to try to see if I can delete all the >142000 messages
> > at the
> > > >> same time to get a fresh start.
> > > >>
> > > >> If anybody knows some tricks that would be interesting!
> > > >
> > > > Use an IMAP client, you can do all your filtering and everything in
> the
> > > > client and it will delete them on the gmail server.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I believe using IMAP will not delete the emails from the Gmail
> > > server but rather keep them in the server. I believe that
> > > POP3 access is the correct way.
> >
> > That depends on how you have the IMAP client set up, on my phone I have
> > it set to "move to server trash", which indeed moves the messages to the
> > trash. The other option is "delete them from the server", sounds pretty
> > obvious and final from the description!! :)
> >
> > TTYL
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