[LINK] Google Abandons Cloud Computing

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2013, Roger Clarke wrote:

Hi Roger.  A few comments on the article below...

> Google now lets you download your Gmail and Calendar data
> SARAH SILBERT
> 5 December 2013
> 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.

That's good and all but Gmail has supported IMAP for a long time (ok the 
IMAP is apparently a little non-standard but at least one Linux based IMAP 
client understands the differences).  It should be possible to connect to 
Gmail IMAP with a tool like imapsync to backup email in Gmail.  I've been 
using this approach with Yahoo mail for a family member for quite some 
time.

IMAP is really the canonical way to migrate email.  The biggest problem 
with migrating email is format conversion and guess what IMAP does? :)

Cheers,

Rob

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