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Thanks Paul. I had the same thought and I tried P...

2008-06-02T08:51:49.592-04:00

Thanks Paul. I had the same thought and I tried POP3, but I remember I wasn't happy with the results. I think it was because I was losing my tags, or maybe the dates were getting messed up on my older messages. (I tried so many things that weekend during my import/conversion of old emails INTO Gmail that I forget the details!) In any case, I gave up on it...but you're right, I should probably give it another try.

Not sure if this will suit you but you can backup ...

2008-06-01T06:22:00.000-04:00

Not sure if this will suit you but you can backup email going to GMail. GMail offers a POP3 connector. So you can setup your desktop client to regularly pull down all email from GMail. This won't affect your experience in GMail, the messages are properly synchronised (read states etc.)

Another option for techies is to setup a daily backup script that connects to POP3 and downloads the email.