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  Gmail Backup Laetitia DeLattre deTassigny <b7r7tn@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 14:33 -0800
    Re: Gmail Backup Jeffrey Needle <jeff.needle@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 04:55 -0800
      Re: Gmail Backup Jim_S <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2015-12-25 13:24 +0000
        Re: Gmail Backup Brian <Brian@yourguess.com> - 2015-12-25 09:47 -0800
        Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-25 11:44 -0800
          Re: Gmail Backup Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2015-12-25 14:00 -0800
            Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-25 16:26 -0800
              Re: Gmail Backup Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2015-12-25 19:20 -0800
                Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-25 23:47 -0800
                  Re: Gmail Backup Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2015-12-26 09:47 -0800
                    Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-26 17:08 -0800
                      Re: Gmail Backup Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2015-12-26 20:00 -0800
                        Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-27 01:36 -0800
                          Re: Gmail Backup Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2015-12-27 04:00 -0800
                            Re: Gmail Backup Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2015-12-27 11:01 -0200
                            Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-27 08:34 -0800
                              Re: Gmail Backup Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2015-12-27 12:19 -0800
                                Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-28 01:36 -0800
                            Re: Gmail Backup Bucky Breeder <Breeder_Bucky-Breeder@That's.my.name_Don't.wear.it.out> - 2015-12-28 15:09 +0000
                              Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-28 08:42 -0800
                                Re: Gmail Backup burfordTjustice <burfordTjustice@buh.boh> - 2015-12-28 11:47 -0500
                                Re: Gmail Backup Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2015-12-28 08:54 -0800
                                Re: Gmail Backup Stormin' Norman <norman@schwarzkopf.invalid> - 2015-12-28 11:55 -0800
                                  Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-28 12:13 -0800
                                    Re: Gmail Backup Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2015-12-28 12:42 -0800
                                      Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-29 00:10 -0800
                                    Re: Gmail Backup Stormin' Norman <norman@schwarzkopf.invalid> - 2015-12-28 13:01 -0800
                                Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-28 12:12 -0800
                                  Re: Gmail Backup Bucky Breeder <Breeder_Bucky-Breeder@That's.my.name_Don't.wear.it.out> - 2015-12-29 16:23 +0000
                                Re: Gmail Backup Bucky Breeder <Breeder_Bucky-Breeder@That's.my.name_Don't.wear.it.out> - 2015-12-29 16:16 +0000
          Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-28 12:18 -0800
            Re: Gmail Backup Jim_S <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2015-12-28 20:38 +0000
              Re: Gmail Backup John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-29 00:12 -0800
    Re: Gmail Backup "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 02:24 +0800

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#251184

On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 08:42:56 -0800
John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Bucky Breeder wrote:
> > Mike Easter wrote: 
> >> John Corliss wrote:
> >>> You're saying that I can only use the account either as an IMAP
> >>> or as a POP3. Yes, I understand that I can only use it one way or
> >>> the other in Thunderbird, but that's not what I'm talking about.
> >>> I use it as:
> >>> - an IMAP in FIREFOX
> >>> - as a POP3 in Thunderbird.
> >>>
> >>> What's so hard to understand about that? What am I saying that's
> >>> wrong here? 
> >>
> >> When you are using gmail's webmail with Ffx, you are NOT accessing
> >> as imap or pop.  When you are using gmail with your client Tb, you
> >> ARE accessing as imap or pop.
> >>
> >> When you access your gmail's webmail settings to ALSO be used with
> >> a client such as Tb, you configure it to be so used as imap OR
> >> pop, not 'both'.
> > 
> > EVERYBODY knows what he's talking about;
> 
> As always, you can't speak for others.
> 
> > except YOU, you feckless dumbass.
> 
> How brave of you to insult me like that through the anonymous media of
> usenet.
> 
> So perhaps you can explain it to me. What then, am I accessing my
> Gmail account as when I log into it via Firefox? What's the format
> then?
> 

Apparently you are a dumbass.
Bucky responded to easter not you.

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#251185

John Corliss wrote:
> How brave of you to insult me like that through the anonymous media of
> usenet.

BB was insulting me, not you.

> So perhaps you can explain it to me. What then, am I accessing my Gmail
> account as when I log into it via Firefox? What's the format then?

That is actually a very interesting discussion.

The browser relates to a webserver (as opposed to a mail client relating 
to a mail server by such as smtp and pop/imap).

However, the relationship of the browser to the webserver engages the 
function of gmail's database for your mail, which is able to also 
function as/with a conventional mail server.

It happens that gmail's functionality is very good compared to others.

A brief snippet from the wp article on gmail (which you might find worth 
reading):

// Gmail is noted by web developers for its pioneering use of Ajax.[15] 
Gmail runs on Google GFE/2.0 on Linux. //

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail


-- 
Mike Easter

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#251190

On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 08:42:56 -0800, John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Bucky Breeder wrote:
>> Mike Easter wrote: 
>>> John Corliss wrote:
>>>> You're saying that I can only use the account either as an IMAP or as a
>>>> POP3. Yes, I understand that I can only use it one way or the other in
>>>> Thunderbird, but that's not what I'm talking about. I use it as:
>>>> - an IMAP in FIREFOX
>>>> - as a POP3 in Thunderbird.
>>>>
>>>> What's so hard to understand about that? What am I saying that's wrong
>>>> here? 
>>>
>>> When you are using gmail's webmail with Ffx, you are NOT accessing as 
>>> imap or pop.  When you are using gmail with your client Tb, you ARE 
>>> accessing as imap or pop.
>>>
>>> When you access your gmail's webmail settings to ALSO be used with a 
>>> client such as Tb, you configure it to be so used as imap OR pop, not 
>>> 'both'.
>> 
>> EVERYBODY knows what he's talking about;
>
>As always, you can't speak for others.
>
>> except YOU, you feckless dumbass.
>
>How brave of you to insult me like that through the anonymous media of
>usenet.
>
>So perhaps you can explain it to me. What then, am I accessing my Gmail
>account as when I log into it via Firefox? What's the format then?

When you use your web browser you are accessing your mail server via
http or https.

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#251193

Stormin' Norman wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 08:42:56 -0800, John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Bucky Breeder wrote:
>>> Mike Easter wrote: 
>>>> John Corliss wrote:
>>>>> You're saying that I can only use the account either as an IMAP or as a
>>>>> POP3. Yes, I understand that I can only use it one way or the other in
>>>>> Thunderbird, but that's not what I'm talking about. I use it as:
>>>>> - an IMAP in FIREFOX
>>>>> - as a POP3 in Thunderbird.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's so hard to understand about that? What am I saying that's wrong
>>>>> here? 
>>>>
>>>> When you are using gmail's webmail with Ffx, you are NOT accessing as 
>>>> imap or pop.  When you are using gmail with your client Tb, you ARE 
>>>> accessing as imap or pop.
>>>>
>>>> When you access your gmail's webmail settings to ALSO be used with a 
>>>> client such as Tb, you configure it to be so used as imap OR pop, not 
>>>> 'both'.
>>>
>>> EVERYBODY knows what he's talking about;
>>
>> As always, you can't speak for others.
>>
>>> except YOU, you feckless dumbass.
>>
>> How brave of you to insult me like that through the anonymous media of
>> usenet.
>>
>> So perhaps you can explain it to me. What then, am I accessing my Gmail
>> account as when I log into it via Firefox? What's the format then?
> 
> When you use your web browser you are accessing your mail server via
> http or https.

Yes, I know that. However, it's accessing the account itself as an IMAP.

-- 
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spy, time-limited, trial or web wares. No warez for me either please:
just freeware -which I define as legally obtainable, local install or
portable computer programs that can be used indefinitely at no cost,
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#251198

John Corliss wrote:
> it's accessing the account itself as an IMAP.

When you are using a client such as Tb and gmail's IMAP function, you 
see what look like gmail directories but are actually gmail labels, as 
gmail's database uses labels instead of directories.

When you manipulate the data in gmail's apparent directories (actually 
labels) in/with an IMAP client like Tb, there is a 'synchrony' between 
what you are seeing in the Tb IMAP client and the gmail database.

So, you could say that what you see in a Tb IMAP client structurally 
looks like what you see in the gmail webmail display.

However, when you use Tb as a pop client, you don't have the same kind 
of synchrony with the gmail database as you do when you use Tb as an 
imap client.  Tb downloads from the inbox and either leaves the item on 
the gmail server or not.  That's it.

IMAP client-server interaction is an imap client such as Tb and an imap 
server such as gmail's function - but Firefox is not an imap client. 
Firefox is an http client.  It engages the data at gmail with the google 
custom software described earlier.


-- 
Mike Easter

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#251225

Mike Easter wrote:
> John Corliss wrote:
>> it's accessing the account itself as an IMAP.
> 
> When you are using a client such as Tb and gmail's IMAP function, you 
> see what look like gmail directories but are actually gmail labels, as 
> gmail's database uses labels instead of directories.
> 
> When you manipulate the data in gmail's apparent directories (actually 
> labels) in/with an IMAP client like Tb, there is a 'synchrony' between 
> what you are seeing in the Tb IMAP client and the gmail database.
> 
> So, you could say that what you see in a Tb IMAP client structurally 
> looks like what you see in the gmail webmail display.
> 
> However, when you use Tb as a pop client, you don't have the same kind 
> of synchrony with the gmail database as you do when you use Tb as an 
> imap client.  Tb downloads from the inbox and either leaves the item on 
> the gmail server or not.  That's it.

I always drag the messages into an archive folder in my local account.

> IMAP client-server interaction is an imap client such as Tb and an imap 
> server such as gmail's function - but Firefox is not an imap client. 
> Firefox is an http client.  It engages the data at gmail with the google 
> custom software described earlier.

I'm aware of this. However, the account is an IMAP one because the email
stays on their server until I download it by moving it to the archive
folder(s) I mentioned.

All of this doesn't mean much. All I care is that the account works.

-- 
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spy, time-limited, trial or web wares. No warez for me either please:
just freeware -which I define as legally obtainable, local install or
portable computer programs that can be used indefinitely at no cost,
monetary or otherwise.

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#251200

On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:13:24 -0800, John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Stormin' Norman wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 08:42:56 -0800, John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Bucky Breeder wrote:
>>>> Mike Easter wrote: 
>>>>> John Corliss wrote:
>>>>>> You're saying that I can only use the account either as an IMAP or as a
>>>>>> POP3. Yes, I understand that I can only use it one way or the other in
>>>>>> Thunderbird, but that's not what I'm talking about. I use it as:
>>>>>> - an IMAP in FIREFOX
>>>>>> - as a POP3 in Thunderbird.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's so hard to understand about that? What am I saying that's wrong
>>>>>> here? 
>>>>>
>>>>> When you are using gmail's webmail with Ffx, you are NOT accessing as 
>>>>> imap or pop.  When you are using gmail with your client Tb, you ARE 
>>>>> accessing as imap or pop.
>>>>>
>>>>> When you access your gmail's webmail settings to ALSO be used with a 
>>>>> client such as Tb, you configure it to be so used as imap OR pop, not 
>>>>> 'both'.
>>>>
>>>> EVERYBODY knows what he's talking about;
>>>
>>> As always, you can't speak for others.
>>>
>>>> except YOU, you feckless dumbass.
>>>
>>> How brave of you to insult me like that through the anonymous media of
>>> usenet.
>>>
>>> So perhaps you can explain it to me. What then, am I accessing my Gmail
>>> account as when I log into it via Firefox? What's the format then?
>> 
>> When you use your web browser you are accessing your mail server via
>> http or https.
>
>Yes, I know that. However, it's accessing the account itself as an IMAP.

That is not necessarily true.  You are accessing the Gmail servers via
https and the Gmail servers are directly querying the gmail databases.

What information do you have that indicates the gmail mail servers are
using IMAP when they access your email?  It just would not make sense
for that to be the case.

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#251192

John Corliss wrote:
> Bucky Breeder wrote:
>> Mike Easter wrote: 
>>> John Corliss wrote:
>>>> You're saying that I can only use the account either as an IMAP or as a
>>>> POP3. Yes, I understand that I can only use it one way or the other in
>>>> Thunderbird, but that's not what I'm talking about. I use it as:
>>>> - an IMAP in FIREFOX
>>>> - as a POP3 in Thunderbird.
>>>>
>>>> What's so hard to understand about that? What am I saying that's wrong
>>>> here? 
>>>
>>> When you are using gmail's webmail with Ffx, you are NOT accessing as 
>>> imap or pop.  When you are using gmail with your client Tb, you ARE 
>>> accessing as imap or pop.
>>>
>>> When you access your gmail's webmail settings to ALSO be used with a 
>>> client such as Tb, you configure it to be so used as imap OR pop, not 
>>> 'both'.
>>
>> EVERYBODY knows what he's talking about;
> 
> As always, you can't speak for others.
> 
>> except YOU, you feckless dumbass.
> 
> How brave of you to insult me like that through the anonymous media of
> usenet.
> 
> So perhaps you can explain it to me. What then, am I accessing my Gmail
> account as when I log into it via Firefox? What's the format then?

My apologies to BB. My bad.


-- 
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spy, time-limited, trial or web wares. No warez for me either please:
just freeware -which I define as legally obtainable, local install or
portable computer programs that can be used indefinitely at no cost,
monetary or otherwise.

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#251249

John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> posted this via news:n5s4v4$sbg$1@dont-
email.me:

> John Corliss wrote:
>> Bucky Breeder wrote:
>>> Mike Easter wrote: 
>>>> John Corliss wrote:
>>>>> You're saying that I can only use the account either as an IMAP or as 
a
>>>>> POP3. Yes, I understand that I can only use it one way or the other 
in
>>>>> Thunderbird, but that's not what I'm talking about. I use it as:
>>>>> - an IMAP in FIREFOX
>>>>> - as a POP3 in Thunderbird.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's so hard to understand about that? What am I saying that's 
wrong
>>>>> here? 
>>>>
>>>> When you are using gmail's webmail with Ffx, you are NOT accessing as 
>>>> imap or pop.  When you are using gmail with your client Tb, you ARE 
>>>> accessing as imap or pop.
>>>>
>>>> When you access your gmail's webmail settings to ALSO be used with a 
>>>> client such as Tb, you configure it to be so used as imap OR pop, not 
>>>> 'both'.
>>>
>>> EVERYBODY knows what he's talking about;
>> 
>> As always, you can't speak for others.
>> 
>>> except YOU, you feckless dumbass.
>> 
>> How brave of you to insult me like that through the anonymous media of
>> usenet.
>> 
>> So perhaps you can explain it to me. What then, am I accessing my Gmail
>> account as when I log into it via Firefox? What's the format then?
> 
> My apologies to BB. My bad.

No problem here...  Mike Easter probably appreciates the assistance.  LOL!

ROTFLMAO!  You'd probably have a heart-attack in mall doing your Xmas 
shopping because everytime somebody said "dumbass" you'd think they were 
talking about you and fly off into a rage [or rant].  Good one.  Thanks. (: 

PS: The answer to your "What's the format then?" challenge is "HTTPS".  
HTH.

-- 

I AM Bucky Breeder,  (*(^; and,
It's like Yogi Berra, RIP 9/22/2015, always used to say:
"The future ain't what it used to be!"

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#251248

John Corliss jumped in there and snibbled thusly: 
> Bucky Breeder wrote:
>> Mike Easter wrote: 
>>> John Corliss wrote:
>>>> You're saying that I can only use the account either as an IMAP or as
>>>> a POP3. Yes, I understand that I can only use it one way or the other
>>>> in Thunderbird, but that's not what I'm talking about. I use it as:
>>>> - an IMAP in FIREFOX
>>>> - as a POP3 in Thunderbird.
>>>>
>>>> What's so hard to understand about that? What am I saying that's
>>>> wrong here? 
>>>
>>> When you are using gmail's webmail with Ffx, you are NOT accessing as 
>>> imap or pop.  When you are using gmail with your client Tb, you ARE 
>>> accessing as imap or pop.
>>>
>>> When you access your gmail's webmail settings to ALSO be used with a 
>>> client such as Tb, you configure it to be so used as imap OR pop, not 
>>> 'both'.
>> 
>> EVERYBODY knows what he's talking about;
> 
> As always, you can't speak for others.
> 
>> except YOU, you feckless dumbass.
> 
> How brave of you to insult me like that through the anonymous media of
> usenet.
> 
> So perhaps you can explain it to me. What then, am I accessing my Gmail
> account as when I log into it via Firefox? What's the format then?

My insult was [obviously] directed at "Mike Easter" [you can tell that 
because my name is right above his moniker, up there in the message header 
information containing the authors' identities - see where mine is right 
above his???] ... but since you're taking things so seriously and 'diva- 
dramatically', to answer your question with the level of academic proficiency 
which it would require :  "Who cares what the format is as long as you can 
log in?" 

HTH.

-- 

I AM Bucky Breeder,  (*(^; and,
It's like Yogi Berra, RIP 9/22/2015, always used to say:
"The future ain't what it used to be!"

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#251194

John Corliss wrote:
> Jim_S wrote:
>> Jeffrey Needle wrote:
>>> Laetitia DeLattre deTassigny wrote:
>>>> I use Gmail and want to back it up.  I want a complete backup. I want very 
>>>> strong compacting capabilities.  If strong enough, store the Gmail 
>>>> somewhere in Google.  It must be freeware.  It must come with a very good 
>>>> tutorial.
>>>> Does that exist?  Advise.
>>>
>>> I guess I'm confused. Gmail saves your mail in the All Mail folder.  Are you
>>> wanting to back up your mail locally?  If so, why bother? 
> 
> So you can read it when you're offline, that is if (like me) you turn
> off your cable modem frequently.
> 
>>> It's all there on Google's server.
>>
>> What Jeff says is true, but you could use an IMAP account, then you have
>> all your mail, both on your devices and on Googgle at the same time.
> 
> I have my Gmail account set up as a POP3 on Thunderbird. Easy to do too.
> I can still access it online as an IMAP though.

So this then, is the post I made which started the brouhaha. My God, my
absolute shame at saying "I can still access it online as an IMAP
though" knows no bounds. How dare I assume that everybody would
understand that in order to "access it online", I would need to use a
browser.

-- 
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spy, time-limited, trial or web wares. No warez for me either please:
just freeware -which I define as legally obtainable, local install or
portable computer programs that can be used indefinitely at no cost,
monetary or otherwise.

I filter out any messages to this newsgroup which come from Google
Groups and recommend that you do likewise.

Voting is the opiate of the people.

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#251197

On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:18:25 -0800, John Corliss wrote:

> John Corliss wrote:
>> Jim_S wrote:
>>> Jeffrey Needle wrote:
>>>> Laetitia DeLattre deTassigny wrote:
>>>>> I use Gmail and want to back it up.  I want a complete backup. I want very 
>>>>> strong compacting capabilities.  If strong enough, store the Gmail 
>>>>> somewhere in Google.  It must be freeware.  It must come with a very good 
>>>>> tutorial.
>>>>> Does that exist?  Advise.
>>>>
>>>> I guess I'm confused. Gmail saves your mail in the All Mail folder.  Are you
>>>> wanting to back up your mail locally?  If so, why bother? 
>> 
>> So you can read it when you're offline, that is if (like me) you turn
>> off your cable modem frequently.
>> 
>>>> It's all there on Google's server.
>>>
>>> What Jeff says is true, but you could use an IMAP account, then you have
>>> all your mail, both on your devices and on Googgle at the same time.
>> 
>> I have my Gmail account set up as a POP3 on Thunderbird. Easy to do too.
>> I can still access it online as an IMAP though.
> 
> So this then, is the post I made which started the brouhaha. My God, my
> absolute shame at saying "I can still access it online as an IMAP
> though" knows no bounds. How dare I assume that everybody would
> understand that in order to "access it online", I would need to use a
> browser.

I'm with you regarding IMAP.
However if this discussion is to go further I need to know the size of the
head of the pin and of the angels. Do they have to stand on both fee or
will one suffice?
-- 
Jim S

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#251226

Jim_S wrote:
> John Corliss wrote:
>> John Corliss wrote:
>>> Jim_S wrote:
>>>> Jeffrey Needle wrote:
>>>>> Laetitia DeLattre deTassigny wrote:
>>>>>> I use Gmail and want to back it up.  I want a complete backup. I want very 
>>>>>> strong compacting capabilities.  If strong enough, store the Gmail 
>>>>>> somewhere in Google.  It must be freeware.  It must come with a very good 
>>>>>> tutorial.
>>>>>> Does that exist?  Advise.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess I'm confused. Gmail saves your mail in the All Mail folder.  Are you
>>>>> wanting to back up your mail locally?  If so, why bother? 
>>>
>>> So you can read it when you're offline, that is if (like me) you turn
>>> off your cable modem frequently.
>>>
>>>>> It's all there on Google's server.
>>>>
>>>> What Jeff says is true, but you could use an IMAP account, then you have
>>>> all your mail, both on your devices and on Googgle at the same time.
>>>
>>> I have my Gmail account set up as a POP3 on Thunderbird. Easy to do too.
>>> I can still access it online as an IMAP though.
>>
>> So this then, is the post I made which started the brouhaha. My God, my
>> absolute shame at saying "I can still access it online as an IMAP
>> though" knows no bounds. How dare I assume that everybody would
>> understand that in order to "access it online", I would need to use a
>> browser.
> 
> I'm with you regarding IMAP.
> However if this discussion is to go further I need to know the size of the
> head of the pin and of the angels. Do they have to stand on both fee or
> will one suffice?

Perzactly. And as for further discussion, in Thunderbird it's Shift-K
for me.
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#251111

On 12/25/2015 6:33 AM, Laetitia DeLattre deTassigny wrote:
> I use Gmail and want to back it up.  I want a complete backup. I want very strong compacting capabilities.  If strong enough, store the Gmail  somewhere in Google.  It must be freeware.  It must come with a very good tutorial.
> Does that exist?  Advise.
>
You can setup THunderbird to read Google Mail via its IMAP servers. They 
you can copy them into Thunderbird's mail folders while keeping all 
emails as they are.

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