Backup your emails

[zeekstern]

Hi,

Is there a way to backup your emails to disk?
I have thousands of emails and do not want to have to print them out
and was hoping there is a way to save them to disk.

Thanks,
Zeek

[Nick Chirchirillo]

I think the only way to do this is to download them to your computer via POP.  See here: gooappfaq.googlepages.com/gmail#h13 if you don't know how to set up POP.

[P.H.]

Just enable POP in your Settings and use a nice e-mail client like
Thunderbird to retrieve all of your e-mail.

[burton...@gmail.com]

Of course there is a way.  The easiest way is to use floppy disks.  Have a look at this site for instructions: 
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115901/backing.htm

Wolfeman
 

On 11/30/06, zeekstern <fred.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Ryan Morehart]

He means backing up your email stored on Gmail, so floppies do not
exactly solve the problem of getting them from the server. :)

Ryan

On Nov 30, 7:49 pm, "wolfe...@gmail.com" <burtonh.wo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[marciaBR]

" use a nice e-mail client like
Thunderbird "

"nice e-mail client" did it for me: I'll download Thunderbird.

[harold jitschak bueno de mesquita Jerusalem-gilo]

nice ,so far as the mails can be down-loaded ,but not a single link can
be opened with thunderbird.
I wrote already a few times about this.
I don't recommend it until this bug has been solved.

[hypnotoad000]

What is this "floppy disks" you speak of? :P

Outlook did the trick for me also.

[burton...@gmail.com]

 From various definitions of Floppy Disk on the Web:

• A thin, flexible plastic disk which has been coated with iron oxide, capable of storing computer data as a magnetic pattern. Almost all programs are sold on floppy disks, which are also used as a convenient way of swapping data between computers.
  www.rockprint.com/dictionary.shtml

The reasons why I prefer saving emails on floppy disks, even though the space on each is limited, are that it's very easy, they are easily labeled and categorized and filed, they are so thin that they take up little space wherever you store them, and they are completely divorced from your hard drive so that if your computer crashes altogether you still have whatever you have saved on the floppies.  As you have seen, members of this group far more knowledgable than I am about computer functions disagree with my choice.  Nevertheless, it is my choice. - Wolfeman 

[chipschap]

I backup by popping to Thunderbird about once a week; I don't have any
problem with links or anything else. Everything that arrives works as
it should!

[iav...@gmail.com]

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> I backup by popping to Thunderbird about once a week; I don't have any
> problem with links or anything else. Everything that arrives works as
> it should!

How restore the messages back to GMail?

[zeekstern]

Thanks Nick and to everyone else who responded. That will do just fine.
I was waiting to receive an email when someone replied to this post but
never did get one.
Guess this forum doesn't have this feature.

Zeek

On Nov 30, 10:37 pm, "Nick Chirchirillo" <nickma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the only way to do this is to download them to your computer via
> POP. See here: gooappfaq.googlepages.com/gmail#h13 if you don't know how to
> set up POP.
>

[Zack (Doc)]

It does, but it's not automatic. Read the thread on the web, and at
the top you'll see a link to email you updates to the thread.