There was a scare a week or so ago where a number of Gmail losers (temporarily) lost all of their stored emails. OK, it was only a short-term issue but maybe the next time it’ll be permanent.

Rather than waiting to find out if this prediction is true or not, it’s probably better to prevent this problem dumping your archived emails by doing a backup.

Lifehacker posted this article about backup apps for any type of email (web-based and programmed) which is useful. However, for sheer simplicity MailStore has got to be the choice app.

Unfortunately, it only works in Windows but it still free. I used it today to backup to my HDD the 2 GB of 5000 emails I’ve amassed over the 5 years I’ve been using Gmail. This took about one hour and a very through job was done.

I’m impressed and relieved that I got that done.

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