[ale] quick and dirty webmail solution?

[Ed Cashin]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Robert Reese<ale at sixit.com> wrote:
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> However, if that really is a concern then also set up a Yahoo! email address for exactly the same purpose, and CC the Yahoo! address to ensure all sent email also has a 'backup'.

Google has nice APIs for non-interactive use of their services.
I was able to write a python script for backing up Google docs
pretty quickly, eliminating my major reservation about using
Google docs extensively for personal and work stuff.

  http://noserose.net/e/code/#bkpgdocs

Last time I looked into backing up my Gmail, I used IMAP as
the method, following some online tutorials, but "getmail" was
re-downloading already fetched mail.

I plan to revisit email backup using their APIs.  Maybe their are
good Gmail backup scripts out there already.  If not, I hope it's
as easy to write a python script as it was for the docs.

-- 
  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>