Mark Rogers wrote:
That's fine as a first step towards backups (ie backup before next sync so anything that gets accidentally deleted can still be recovered from backups) but doesn't really help with the idea of keeping old archives of emails on my desktop (accessible) and removing them from Gmail.
Indeed. You'd also need to use rsnapshot or duplicity or any one of many other possibilities to keep a history of the Maildirs that you could extract from at whatever future time you wish.
Hope that helps,