Oh man, this sucks. Thanks for the 411 though. I think I shit myself...
drew olanoff
· 3 years ago
Brilliant advice Chris, I'm reposting this over at BestDamnTech.com for our listeners/viewers with a link back. I'm not lazy, but I just couldn't put it any better.
Jason Coleman
· 3 years ago
Thanks for the quick how-to. I didn't even think about Gmail's POP support.
El Guapo
· 3 years ago
This does not work. I have 1.5GB of email stored in gmail right now. (Lots of vonage voicemail).
POP access only gives you about 30MB or so of your most recent mail.
Any ideas?
Chris
· 3 years ago
I'm with El Guapo. Thunderbird only retrives some 280-300 emails at the time. How can I get it to keep retrieving all my gmail?
Chris
· 3 years ago
I don't believe there is any way to retrieve more than 30meg of gmail e-mails.
chrisbrogan
· 3 years ago
Have you tried something different than Thunderbird as the catcher? I swear I got 14,000 mails on my Mail.app. Now, I haven't checked to see size, but then, I don't have many with attachments stored, I don't think.
Chris
· 3 years ago
Well GMail will let me download between 300-400 emails at a time it seems.
I've now setup the account within Thunderbird to check and retrieve for new email every 1 minute. I had to restart Thunderbird to get the new settings activated. But now the email is flowing into my archive folders.
To others - you might want to configure a rule/filter on mail retrieval. All my email now flows into a folder for the year the email was from.
That way it would also be possible to restore the email to a gmail account using the gmail loader app and load one year at a time. Of course before doing that I would need to seperate the mail further into sent/received archives.
protoiyer
· 2 years ago
Hi Chris,
This is Suresh (aka Proto) from India. I stumbled upon your useful article while I was searching for how-to-backup-gmail-using-thunderbird. I have been thinking of taking a gmail backup ever since news about people loosing their mails or sometimes being locked out of their gmail accounts came to the fore.
Now that TB 2 RC1 is out, thought it is as good a time as any to take backups. The backing up is happening right now (as I right this).
However, I didn't quite understand the points 5, 6, and 7 (as in "how exactly to go about it"). Here are the queries I have:
#5. How can I identify the folder name? Any link that explains this will be very useful for TB newbies like me
#6. "I’m going to clip off a current update from today, and toss that entire file to my backup drive. Then, I’ll delete the account on my POP mail client, and go about my business.".
Here, are you talking about moving the mail-file to a backup and then actually deleting it off from the source (folder mentioned in #5)? Why would you do it?
Also, are you going to delete the gmail pop account info from TB? If yes, then how will you take backup next week or in future? I mean is your intention only to take backup only till today (day in which you are doing this exercise)?
#7. "Schedule your updates periodically with Google Calendar".. Here, are you asking us to repeat all the steps (to take backup) every week or month, by using reminders from GCal? Or is there a way to actually take GMail updates using GCal? I know this might sound dumb, but I didn't quite understand.
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POP access only gives you about 30MB or so of your most recent mail.
Any ideas?
I've now setup the account within Thunderbird to check and retrieve for new email every 1 minute. I had to restart Thunderbird to get the new settings activated. But now the email is flowing into my archive folders.
To others - you might want to configure a rule/filter on mail retrieval. All my email now flows into a folder for the year the email was from.
That way it would also be possible to restore the email to a gmail account using the gmail loader app and load one year at a time. Of course before doing that I would need to seperate the mail further into sent/received archives.
This is Suresh (aka Proto) from India. I stumbled upon your useful article while I was searching for how-to-backup-gmail-using-thunderbird. I have been thinking of taking a gmail backup ever since news about people loosing their mails or sometimes being locked out of their gmail accounts came to the fore.
Now that TB 2 RC1 is out, thought it is as good a time as any to take backups. The backing up is happening right now (as I right this).
However, I didn't quite understand the points 5, 6, and 7 (as in "how exactly to go about it"). Here are the queries I have:
#5. How can I identify the folder name? Any link that explains this will be very useful for TB newbies like me
#6. "I’m going to clip off a current update from today, and toss that entire file to my backup drive. Then, I’ll delete the account on my POP mail client, and go about my business.".
Here, are you talking about moving the mail-file to a backup and then actually deleting it off from the source (folder mentioned in #5)? Why would you do it?
Also, are you going to delete the gmail pop account info from TB? If yes, then how will you take backup next week or in future? I mean is your intention only to take backup only till today (day in which you are doing this exercise)?
#7. "Schedule your updates periodically with Google Calendar".. Here, are you asking us to repeat all the steps (to take backup) every week or month, by using reminders from GCal? Or is there a way to actually take GMail updates using GCal? I know this might sound dumb, but I didn't quite understand.
Thanks.
Regards,
Suresh.