How to backup all of your emails in Gmail account? Search for ‘Gmail Blackout’ or ‘Gmail Outage’ and you’ll be amazed by the numbers of complains. If you are using GMail, do keep in mind that GMail is still marked as beta, it means there is no guarantee for its reliability.
Archiving your email corespondent is important, this maybe be useful for future references. Gmail Backup program is aimed to backup and restore of your GMail mailbox. You will need to activate the IMAP access to your mailbox, to do so, please open your GMail settings and under POP/IMAP tab activate this option.
The messages are stored in the local directory in files which names follow the format YYYYMMDD-hhmmss-nn.eml where YYYY is the year, MM the month number, DD is the day number, hh are hours, mm are minutes and ss are seconds when the e-mail was SENT. For the case there is more emails with the same timestamp there is the number nn which starts with value 1. Label assignment is stored in the file labels.txt which is the plain text file and it pairs the emails stored in the file described above with the assigned labels.
For those using Gmail as their primary email account, always remember to backup your emails.
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