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  1. Re:Getting out of GMAIL by citylivin · · Score: 1 · on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign

    I havent tried it as I dont have gmail, but I assume 1) IMAP connect with thunderbird or outlook or whatever 2) download mail to local machine 3) export to PST file or use a program like IMAPsize to back them up ( http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/index.php ) 4) restore to new imap provider.

  2. IMAPSize will go the job by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails?

    Try IMAPSize

    Since your email service is IMAP based, it will make an off-line cache which you can periodically sync.
    You can search it in various ways, and it will let you take backups.

    You can even use it to migrate your mail history to another IMAP server.

    Enjoy.

  3. Use IMAPSize to backup Gmail (on Windoze) by hadaso · · Score: 1 · on Protection From Online Eviction?

    IMAPSize is an application for IMAP account management (unlike an email client that would sync with your IMAP account, possibly instructing the server to delete things, IMAPSize backup function only copies and backups. Backups can be incremental, of course. And there's other functionality too, like Attachment removal or header modification).

    I know it works with Gmail (used it) though I use it mainly with my fastmail.fm account.

  4. IMAPsize "account backup" function by hadaso · · Score: 1 · on Charter Accidentally Wipes 14K Email Accounts

    IMAPsize is a Windows utility for IMAP account maintenance and it has a function to do incremental backups of an IMAP account. Just a few clicks and the process can be left to do its job. Then you can burn it to a CD and keep it in a safe place.

  5. Too lazy to login... but Vista doesn't suck balls! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Review of Stardock's TweakVista
    I just got forced to used Vista at work, starting Today. (I do embedded development with PIC's. )

    I have to say I like Vista.

    Once you untweak the UI (Windows Classic Baby!) it actually runs faster than my XP box... Ive used Mac OS from version 2 to the latest Jaguar (I'm a certified apple developer), DOS from when it was really called CPM, Win16->Win64 (ok lying about the 64 part) and dont get me started about *nix/BSD.
    I've been toeing the line about dont upgrade to vista.. vista bad.. bla bla. It works and I'm shocked.
    I did have a few gotchas ... Thunderbird --> Outlook Was a BITCH. ( You need to run a converter program called ImapSize ) Because outlook express was missing on my machine ( now called windows mail.. )
    I have a few different keyboard locals, and one of my apps wanted to add accent characters instead of /'s
    Other than that... I've been enjoying it. Especially this one: Shift-RightClick on a folder and you can open a CMD shell at that location!! Fucking A! no more reg hacking.

    Ok time to get back to work.

    PS: Nice Work Bill G et al. Sadly the best OS you guys have made to date, and you fucked the one thing you guys do well, MARKETING!!

  6. Re:OpenCD by JacquesDemien · · Score: 3, Informative · on Introducing GNU/Linux Via Applications
    I am often asked by family, friends, and coworkers (I work in IT and have contact with a large number of end-users) what applications I use, and what I recommend that they use. I do suggest GNU/Linux, but clearly most of them are using Windows and prefer to keep it that way for now. Here is the list of applications which I usually give them. Granted, some of these are NOT "free as in freedom" but are rather just "free as in beer" since, as noted elsewhere in this thread, for some categories of software there is no open source package available for Windows, or at least none available that your proverbial Grandma could be expected to use without installing Cygwin or something. (Obviously this list is aimed more at your Grandma than at the average GNU/Linux user, since that is the target audience. In real life I only use some of these applications myself. However, I do support family and friends who use them.) You could, of course, argue that better choices could be made, and you'd be correct.... General Tools

    Internet Tools

    Basic Tools

    Security Tools

    Advanced Tools

  7. Re:Did I miss the boat? by LetterJ · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 Released
    There are also tools like IMAPSize that let you backup IMAP email to a filesystem. I use Thunderbird to label email that I want to keep, but only need archive access (using the labels, I just hit "5" and it's marked. Once a month (this morning in fact), I simple load my saved search for those labeled emails, move them to an IMAP folder named "archive" and use IMAPSIze to pull those messages off and into individual .eml files. They're part of my filesystem searches as well as backup scheme after that. I could probably script something to do it all without my intervention, but *completely* automated things have a tendency to fail in ways you don't notice until it's too late, so I like doing just a little bit of work once a month.

    The end result is that I really only delete spam and the rest just become text files on my hard drive, backed up along with the rest of my files. The main reason for keeping old emails (archive and searching for needed old information) is retained and my IMAP account stays lean and quick.

  8. Re:IMAP as the API by LetterJ · · Score: 3, Informative · on A Programmatically Accessible Email Archive?

    I personally use IMAPSize to archive my IMAP mail that is needed mostly for historical purposes. Just yesterday, I pulled 12,000 messages off of my IMAP server for long-term storage. It turns them either into an mbox file or individual emails. I've then got a script that dumps them into a database as well as just zipping them up for burning to optical media. The database is for quick searching, the files for backup/recovery. I looked for the solution mostly to speed up my IMAP server and client both, which weren't happy with the huge numbers of email I was storing or occasionally crappy connections. I've got a web interface to it that also lets me easily reply to a message directly from there, pull out related messages, etc.