On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:45:34 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Last week I decided to back up some of my mails from my gmail > account. I remember that there used to be gmailfs mechanism for this. > However the package is not available on my debian/squeeze anymore. > I also tried using the imap service, using evolution, but it became > quickly a nightmare (it is just impossible to retrieve just a single > mail). I even selected 'Basic Headers' from the IMAP headers preferences > in evolution. > > What are other people using when there gmail mailbox is becoming big ?
Another thing to try: http://blog.fealdia.org/2008/08/11/backing-up-gmail-on-debian-using-isync/ But I use the manual way and try to keep the mailbox folders in a good shape to avoid having lots (thounsands!) of message is just one "label". Split messages by years/topics is the clue to have a "sane" Gmail :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.01.17.13.17...@gmail.com
