By the way, this post http://opennomad.com/content/gmail-backup-imap-server describes one way to set up a home system to pull all of the GMail content into a local IMAP server with all open-source tools.
Joseph Sinclair wrote: > This sounds more like a situation where you just don't trust GMail to keep > your older emails, but you still really need cloud access to the > current/recent email. > > What you might find most useful is a hybrid setup. > > Use a local store (fetchmail-into-mbox, thunderbird on POP, IMAP/Backup, > etc...) on a system at home that you don't mind running as a server and have > that download everything, read-only, from GMail and keep it forever in a > small/light IMAP server like qmail-toaster as Eric Shubert suggests. > Set the gmail to archive and remove (might need to enable a lab for this) > anything over some reasonable age (perhaps 1 year?) so it serves as a > cloud-based cache for "recent" email without all the old stuff. > Use a caching IMAP client on the laptop to access gmail while on the road > (gmail with offline enabled, Thunderbird in IMAP mode with local storage > enabled, etc...). > Have another client at home to read from your archive server for older > messages that won't be in your GMail any more. > > There are a lot of variations on that structure. The primary idea being to > split the huge volume of old emails from the smaller "current" volume (for > whatever timeframe you consider "current"). > > Just a thought. > > Joseph Sinclair > > Jim March wrote: >> Well gmail-backup looked like a good idea but it depends on python 2.5 >> - I have 2.6, it refuses to execute the shell script on that basis. >> >> Sigh. >> >> Jim >> >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Eric Cope <eric.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> or this... >>> >>> http://www.gmail-backup.com/download >>> >>> again, just googled it, can't vouch for quality. >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Eric Cope <eric.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> It sounds like a method to download all emails to a database initially, >>>> then keep up with emails at a normal rate. >>>> What about something like this - >>>> http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/imap-backup.php - I just googled it, I >>>> can't vouch for quality... >>>> >>>> Eric >>>> >>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Alan Dayley <aday...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> I don't have an answer to your main question, just questions. �In your >>>>>> original post you stated: >>>>>> >>>>>> "And it has to allow streaming it all in continuously. �We're talking >>>>>> about almost 6gig." >>>>>> >>>>>> These requirements are not clear to me. >>>>> Ah. �Yeah. �My bad. >>>>> >>>>> OK, I have nearly six gigs in Gmail right now. �There's gotta >>>>> be...heck, I dunno, 30,000 messages in my inbox alone. �Thousands in >>>>> "sent". �God ONLY knows what's in the spam trap. >>>>> >>>>> :) >>>>> >>>>> I'm going to take an empty local EMail client, point it at that >>>>> beeyatch and say "open up and say aaaahhhh" one evening with the >>>>> laptop on a fast pipe, and go to bed. >>>>> >>>>> When I wake up, I want that stuff held locally. >>>>> >>>>> If I have to restart the download every 700 or 900 or whatever >>>>> messages, it'll take frackin' forever. �I need it to suck that stuff >>>>> down unattended. �And I'll make sure I have enough local disk space to >>>>> eat it all. >>>>> >>>>> Once it's synced the first time, then it's pretty easy to keep up. >>>>> It's gonna be that first download that will be a complete and utter >>>>> PITA. >>>>> >>>>> :) >>>>> >>>>> Jim >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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