On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, Pete Turnbull wrote: > On 20/11/2015 19:39, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > >I'm considering doing something that actually downloads my Gmail content > >locally and keeps it in sync periodically, but I haven't really looked at > >what's necessary for that. > > You could use fetchmail to snarf it and any IMAP server to make it available > as you like - I use UW imapd, which is pretty lightweight.
True, but my concern is that if I made changes in my local copy to better suit me, the official Gmail copy would eventually conflict with it pretty badly. I admit I haven't investigated the issue, though. -- Eric Christopherson