Comments on: Pulling Mail Out of Gmail And Retaining Your Labels http://test.latko.org/?p=265 A Misanthropic Anthropoid With Something to Say Sun, 13 Nov 2022 02:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark Wilson http://test.latko.org/?p=265&cpage=1#comment-3825 Mark Wilson Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:17:08 +0000 http://www.latko.org/?p=265#comment-3825 <p>One more reason to use this method… it runs in the background so, even if I forget to launch a client application (e.g. Outlook), my mail is still backed up.</p> <p><i>This comment was originally posted on <a href="http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2009/03/archive-google-mail-to-a-mac-using-getmail.htm#comment-102651" rel="nofollow" title="“Archive Google Mail to a Mac using getmail” (http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog)">markwilson.it</a></i></p> One more reason to use this method… it runs in the background so, even if I forget to launch a client application (e.g. Outlook), my mail is still backed up.

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]]> By: Mark Wilson http://test.latko.org/?p=265&cpage=1#comment-3827 Mark Wilson Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:14:32 +0000 http://www.latko.org/?p=265#comment-3827 <p>Sure, Microsoft Outlook will connect to an IMAP server and store mail in a PST file (unless you’re running an SMTP server locally, SMTP is for outbound mail only). Outlook Express/Windows Mail could also be used to take a copy of the mail - or Mozilla Thunderbird will do the same for an MBOX file. All of those options involve installing yet another bloated app though, and there’s something to be said for a few simple commands running in the background and watching some text scroll by on a Terminal window every 10 minutes.</p> <p>I know… I’m a geek.</p> <p><i>This comment was originally posted on <a href="http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2009/03/archive-google-mail-to-a-mac-using-getmail.htm#comment-101187" rel="nofollow" title="“Archive Google Mail to a Mac using getmail” (http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog)">markwilson.it</a></i></p> Sure, Microsoft Outlook will connect to an IMAP server and store mail in a PST file (unless you’re running an SMTP server locally, SMTP is for outbound mail only). Outlook Express/Windows Mail could also be used to take a copy of the mail – or Mozilla Thunderbird will do the same for an MBOX file. All of those options involve installing yet another bloated app though, and there’s something to be said for a few simple commands running in the background and watching some text scroll by on a Terminal window every 10 minutes.

I know… I’m a geek.

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