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Re: Gmail Backup

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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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  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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