[ale] quick and dirty webmail solution?

[Brian Pitts]

Ed Cashin wrote:
> 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

Thanks for releasing this, btw. I was planning to create my own, but
then I stumbled across yours and gdd.py [0]

> 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've been using imapbackup.py [1] with good results for a couple years now.

[0] http://1st-soft.net/gdd/
[1] http://tamale.net/imapbackup/

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All the best,
Brian Pitts