fetchmail: POP3 > STATįetchmail: POP3 < +OK 0 0 fetchmail: No mail for riccio.cri at fetchmail: POP3 > QUITįetchmail: 6.3.17 querying (protocol POP3 ) at Thu 05: 36:03 PM CET: poll completedįetchmail: 6.3.17 querying (protocol POP3) at Thu 05:36:02 PM CET: poll started fetchmail: POP3 > USER XXXXXX POP3 < +OK send PASS fetchmail: POP3 > PASS *įetchmail: POP3 < +OK Welcome. Trying to connect to 74.125.77.109 / 995.connected.įetchmail: Issuer Organization: Google Incįetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Google Internet Authorityįetchmail: Subject CommonName: įetchmail: key fingerprint: 6B:C4: 63:05: 87:1E: 72: 88:ED: 81:C5:A2: 51:6B:B7:B6įetchmail: POP3 < +OK Gpop ready for requests from 82.58.25.112 v14pf247455eeh.26 fetchmail: POP3 > CAPAįetchmail: POP3 < +OK Capability list followsįetchmail: POP3 <.
fetchmailrc file and then, add the following text into it:įetchmail: 6.3.17 querying (protocol POP3 ) at Thu 05: 36:02 PM CET: poll started Perhaps you are fine with the web interface, or you dislike Thunderbird.or for any reason don’t want another Email client to do a simple backup, so here is another simple idea, use fetchmail and dump the content of your Gmail account into a directory of your PC.Ībout that there is a nice guide of Gina Trapani she has implemented this idea on Windows, that is IMO much more harder, you need a working Cygwin environment and some skill with windows shell.ġ) install fetchmail, i expect any distribution to have it so just use your favourite package manager to install it from your distribution repository (I.E aptitude install fetchmail, emerge fetchmail, yum install fetchmail).Ģ) in your home directory create a new. A perfect solution of backup on your main PC. So now you are done, when you get the messages from that Thunderbird you’ll save a copy on that PC, leaving the messages also on the server available to others device that can still read them. Port (the field to the right of the protocol drop-down list): change to “995”.Protocol (the drop-down list to the right of the Incoming field): change to “POP”.So you can see that Thunderbird queries the Gmail server and automatically configures the appropriate IMAP connection settings for your account, but we want POP, so click on Edit, and change the parameters in: So today i’ve switched from imap to pop to do this simply (or to activate a pop account on thunderbird from zero):Ġ) Log in into your gmail account on the web click on settings in the top right corner, Click on the Forwarding and Pop linktab, Click on Enable Pop for all mail.Īlso Click on step number 2 of that window and click on Keep Gmail’s copy in the inbox from the drop down menu, we want to keep a copy of the email on Gmail for our other devices.ġ) If you have one delete your imap account on thunderbird, before doing this check the configurations and the sent email folder (i had something in local).Ģ) Now in Thunderbird go in Edit -> Account setting and click on Add Mail Account, the thunderbird wizard will ask your name, email address and password and will present to you something a window like the one in the screenshot. But i did a big mistake (from the backup point of view), i used Thunderbird wizard to setup the account and so i set up an Imap account, that means (in short) that if i delete something by mistake on the web the change is reflected also on my PC, also if i’ve already downloaded that message. I use thunderbird as email client because with it i can check my 4 email accounts (not all from Gmail) and so in the past i set up this program to check also my gmail account instead of using the web interface from the browser. Thus we’ll see three ways to do a backup on your personal computer of all mail in a Gmail account. Yes Google is certainly very capable and reliable, but in the end, you do not have activate a free account with few thing assured ?Īnd it can happen to delete by mistake from the web interface one or more emails, even in these cases perhaps a backup can save us. But I guess that all of you know already all the advantages of using these email accounts so that they are becoming very important for us … but have you ever thought about making a backup of these mails ? Gmail has become for many the favorite e-mail account, being very comfortable, with plenty of space available and a web interface that can be used through various devices: smartphone, laptop or desktop.
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