Stuff Gmail

Andrew Dupont | June 18th, 2004 @ 12:57 am

Mark Pilgrim uses IMAP, but every couple months he downloads all his messages via POP and archives them for backup. I like this approach. I also think that if there were a way to do this with GMail — incrementally, like every month, as compared to the Herculean task of trying to shove all email you’ve ever received into GMail at once — I’d be very excited.

How many casual computer users actually have e-mail they received several years ago? Not many, and it’s often because they weren’t using e-mail several years ago. But in this coming years this is going to get more and more important. Someone’s going to have to figure out a way to make e-mail archival much easier than it is now.

Sushubh | June 19th, 2004 @ 3:55 pm

here is another alternative in case u still read my comments before deleting
http://www.e-eeasy.com/getmail.aspx

Sushubh | June 19th, 2004 @ 4:09 pm

my bad, the above program works for hotmail and wont keep the dates… apologies if it offended anyone

Matt | June 20th, 2004 @ 8:15 pm

Andrew, for me that wouldn’t work because the whole point of IMAP for me is having all my email accessible from anywhere.

Transient Savant » Using Gmail as a Primary Email Client | June 23rd, 2004 @ 3:46 am

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