How to Back Up Gmail to Your Computer or Local Drive?

Gmail is top most electronic mailing service in the whole world. You can send messages and share your documents, files, folders, photos videos with its amazing features. Whenever you send any type of document to any person. It automatically makes a backup of that document or file through the Google's servers. You know, you can download that backup in your computer and in your local drives. You will be a another backup file of your documents and files in your local drives. Because you don't want to lose them. I have been using Gmail for 4 years. Within the 40000 plus messages I've have sent or received. I have important professional consistency and personal messages from loved ones who have since passed on. I really don;t want to lose them.

Back Up Gmail to Your Computer or Local Drive

I know that Google takes backup on its servers. But I still feel better with all those messages stored locally. I'm Supposing that you access your gmail account from your web browser and wish to keep doing so.

Something bothers me about the gmail backup. It has not been updated since 2009. For a program that open an email account online, that's kind of little scary. The code has been open source since 2013 which is a good thing. People can find and fix security leaks after studying the code. According to me, no one is doing that.

 

So here's another solution. And this one should work with any web-based email services.

To access Gmail, set up a local mail client by using the IMAP protocol. IMAP synchronizes the mail on your computer with the mail on the server. Old messages and new ones will stay in the local storage and will download.

Change Settings For Download Everything

Depending on your program. You'll probably need to change a setting to make sure that it will download everything. For example with outlook 2013:

1.   Press Ctrl-Alt-S to bring up the Send/Receive Groups dialog box.

2.   Select All Accounts and click Edit.

3.   Select Use the custom behavior defined below.

4. In the folder options section, right click on your email address and select check all subfolders.

5. Right-click the address again and select Apply Options to All Checked Subfolders

6. Then, above Folder Options, select Download complete items including attachments for subscribed folders.

Continue to access gmail on the web. But every week or so, load your local mail client and synchronize it.

There is a problem in gmail that If you archieved a message in Gmail and didn't give it a label or move it to a folder, That message would not be backed up.