[Cialug] Gmail archiving and firefox reading as text/plain

Chris Freeman cwfreeman at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 06:43:39 CST 2008


On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Colin Burnett <cmlburnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Two questions I think are simple so I'll just do one email instead of two.
>
> 1) I'd like to archive my gmail email locally and I know there's lots
> of options out there, what do you use?  I'm looking for something
> cron'able (so no Thunderbird, etc.) and I don't really care about the
> saving format so long as I can grep or whatever if gmail dies on me.
> If it's just a POP solution then I guess it's not a gmail-specific
> question.  Does fetchmail pretty much answer this question?
>

I haven't tried it yet, but I just ran across gmail-backup (
http://www.gmail-backup.com). It looks pretty beta, but it might be what you
want.

Chris
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