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Backup your Gmail EmailsWell, this evening, I just logged in to my Gmail account, only to find something happening wrong. It was actually a temporary error, Google told me, and I was lucky enough to get back into my Gmail account within minutes. But what if my archived messages were gone? Some important ones! What if….

The worst thing might happen at anytime. Nothing is cent percent perfect. So why not take up some precautions?

Well, I earlier set up my Gmail account such that it forwards all emails to a private Google group and I established it, thanks to this tutorial on Google Tutor. When this is done, there’s a copy of all your arrived emails in a private Google group, accessible only to you. So when something’s wrong, you can access your emails – safe and sound – on Google Groups.

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May 10th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Posted in google,tips

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  • http://www.sizlopedia.com News Blog

    Hey buddy a very nice find

    cz for me Gmail is life

    i have hundreds of mail and everything stored there …. what if they all say bye bye one day :O

    I need to backup all

  • http://digitalmail.blogspot.com/ Atul

    Nice tip shankar , but will they remain safe when we forward them to Google group .

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    @Atul,
    We’ve to hope so, it’s not that all Google’s servers go off at a time, isn’t it?

  • http://digitalmail.blogspot.com/ Atul

    yes you are right but if mails are like some bank personal reports than we should transfer them to outlook .

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    That’s a good thing to do too.

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    Nice tip. Need to back up all important data, whether it be mails or documents or any other thing, bcoz computer and internet are not totally safe, it can have a crash any time. :-)

  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur Kapoor

    Nice stuff man , some of my important mails are there .

  • http://shiokculture.blogspot.com Culture Shiok!

    Is this for free?

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    @Culter Shiok,
    Yes, it’s free! You just forward your mails to a private google group :)

  • http://www.tech4dummies.net praveen

    Yes I have also seen some open source tools which can download stuff from gmail to you secondary memory