Orchidflower
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I've heard of Hushmail, but don't know anyone who uses it. Does anyone on this board use Hushmail here that can offer an opinion?
Why never delete a message? I don't understand, TromboneAl.
I would like to find an easy way to download and backup the 1.569 Gigabytes of emails that I have on gmail.
T-Al,
I have not tried this but it should work. Put all your mail in the inbox, then route you email to a pop-3 account. Then use microsoft mail or outlook to open the box and then back up your email from that program. That was quick and dirty, most likely would take a while, but should work. Once you have them copied you would only have to backup the outlook every month or so as it would have all your mail in it forwarded from gmail.
I would like to find an easy way to download and backup the 1.569 Gigabytes of emails that I have on gmail.
the Gmail user interface was a little odd for me at first, but now I use it a lot.
One thing to note: I have 2 accounts (or should say had 2 accounts). One of my gmail accounts was recently hacked, and taken over.
but you need to know when you created the account (exact dates), names of several labels, email addresses in your address book, etc. So make sure you choose a good password, and remember your details.
That was Google's recommendation when I signed up during the early beta phase. If I recall correctly, GMail originally came with a gig of storage and I figured it would eventually fill up. So I got in the habit of keeping everything that may have any value but I delete useless stuff (e.g. an exchange about where to eat dinner). I just checked my settings and saw that I am using 3% of my current 7.4 G allotment so maybe I will never run out. But I create a ton of useless stuff since I email time sensitive reminders, links and other junk to myself (e.g. travel itineraries) that I know I will never have a future use for. When I police my inbox I first delete all that stuff then archive all the stuff I may have use for.Because there's no reason to. True it takes a little space, but you will probably never run out of space. It doesn't slow things down to have a ton of old emails around.
The advantages of having your old emails around are huge. You can find that password for the application you installed 4 years ago, for example.
Is the exact date only one thing among many and if you know everything else it doesn't matter if you don't know the exact date? I have 3 gmail accounts actually but don't know the exact date I created any of them. Is there any way to find out that information for future? Hmm...Wonder if I should create a different gmail account where I would know that...but what a pain.