Backup your Gmail email
Linux & OSS News, Linux Applications, Open Source Applications, Ubuntu Desktop March 26th, 2008
If you are like me, you heavily rely upon your gmail. Why would you ever want to back it up? Suppose you needed some sort of information in an offline mode, or perhaps you just don’t want certain data hosted with gmail? For whatever reason, I just think it’s kind of a cool idea. I like it for keeping a copy of my data on hand so I can manipulate it however I like. I can easily find any piece of data without having to use the gmail web filter options.
Pyropus Technology has developed “getmail” which is available under the GPL license. Feel free to download it and try it out.
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Possibly the worst documented project that I have ever seen. This is obviously a python programmer and the documentation is obfuscated. Why you would even bother to ask anyone to use this software to backup their gmail accounts is beyond me. There are absolutely NO examples in the documentation and it leaves you wondering what you should be typing when you’re creating your .RC file. Unbelievable. Unfortunately also, there is absolutely no documentation on how to remove the software after you’ve installed it.