On 27/07/16 10:57, Ewan Slater wrote:
Sorry, but I have to ask, why not just leave them where they are and have Google take care of them?
I don't see it as "either/or". However: - If I delete it from GMail it's gone. I can't ring them up and ask them to restore from a backup. - I don't hate Google the way a lot of people do, but that doesn't mean I won't fall out with them in future, and having an offline backup is a "Good Thing". - I have limited quota on my GMail account, and far more available disk space to archive stuff to offline - Internet connections don't always work. GMail doesn't always work. - Subject to a suitable storage format, I can "grep" my mail archive or otherwise process it in ways that GMail won't let me
Etc!
It's not been a sufficiently pressing concern for me to have dealt with this ages ago, but one mailbox is approaching the 5GB limit which has pushed this up the priority list.