Mozilla Thunderbird, IMAP and Gmail--backup, embrace and extend

Posted by scrubs on Sep 24, 2010 2:23 AM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Gary Richmond
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Ryan Cartwright has written an article on how to backup Gmail with Getmail. It is an excellent piece, but Getmail is a command line program, and while most readers of FSM will doubtless be at home there and in configuring XML files, we also like to behave like electric currents and take the course of least resistance to get from A to B. Besides, using the Thunderbird (or Evolution) e-mail clients to backup Gmail has other advantages too. Read the full article at Free Software Magazine.

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