[LINK] Google Abandons Cloud Computing

Martin Barry marty at supine.com
Fri Dec 6 19:30:02 AEDT 2013


$quoted_author = "Roger Clarke" ;
> 
> http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/05/download-your-gmail-and-calendar-data/
> 
> Starting today, Google's rolling out the ability to export copies of 
> your Gmail data in the MBOX format for backing up or moving to 
> another service.

This is a "good thing"™ but Google already has IMAP access to Gmail which
allows you to sync your mail to a backup location in whatever format you
like. Gmail's "labels" don't always play nice with IMAP's "folders" but a
lot of people were already using this when migrating away or as a backup.

cheers
Marty



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