It’s time for a backup of your Gmail account(s) if you live in China.
Google has announced it’s contemplating leaving China and the ramifications might well be that in doing so their Gmail service will become unavailable as well. There’s no certainty but don’t be naive and think it could not happen. Stranger things happened in China regarding the Internet.
How to backup Gmail with Gmail Backup
Program: Gmail Backup
URL: http://www.gmail-backup.com/download
Platform: (Windows & Linux)Simple program that stores all your emails in a folder of choice on your hard disk
Includes option to set the date from where to start backing up
How to backup Gmail with Imap
On the help pages Google provides info on how to configure several email clients to back up your mail using IMAP
Among the email clients are:
Thunderbird 2.0
Apple Mail 2.0
Outlook Express
Outlook 2007
Windows MailSee for an overview of all email clients here. For the Chinese version see here
How to backup Gmail with Pop
On the help pages Google provides info on how to configure several email clients to back up your mail using POP
Among the email clients are:
Thunderbird 2.0
Apple Mail 2.0
Outlook 2007
Outlook Express
Windows MailSee for an overview of all email clients here. For the Chinese version see here
Better do it now, VPN connections will get slower once we all have to start using them.
If anyone knows better ways, please add them in the comments.