Support Gmail Backup Petition

[Martin Visser]

What's wrong with the POP3 and IMAP method that they have provided?
Supposing that they did provide a "backup" facility what format do you
propose it should take? Should it just be a tarball/zip of all the
mail with all it's headers, and if so what viewer or other method do
you propose you would use to trawl through the mail - assuming that
downloading via IMAP/POP3 isn't good enough. As far as I can see,
gmail provide a service no different to any other mail provider or
ISP,  why would you them expect to provide anything different?

(BTW it doesn't look like a petition to me - just a blog post).

Regards, Martin

Martin Visser


On Nov 6, 2007 1:26 PM, Matthew Rossi <matthew.penguincentral at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.  I am Matthew Rossi.  I want to see Google implement a way to backup our
> entire gmail inboxes to our computer, and burn them onto a disc or whatever
> for backup.  You can find the petition at
> http://computeruser.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/gmail-please-let-me-back-up-my-email/
>
> Thank You for your Support
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