Then there is that rival company asshole, who pays a thug to steal your laptop so he can spray some ice on your RAM modules and run some silly memory-dump boot app from CD (did you remember to disable booting from CD in your BIOS?) so he can get to all the company data you stored on your laptop.
Gmail, when accessed through IMAP, shows each of your tags as separate IMAP folders.
So you may end up downloading some mail twice, but your overall structure will be preserved for backup purposes.
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Then there is that rival company asshole, who pays a thug to steal your laptop so he can spray some ice on your RAM modules and run some silly memory-dump boot app from CD (did you remember to disable booting from CD in your BIOS?) so he can get to all the company data you stored on your laptop.
No kidding, that's as easy as pie.
Gmail, when accessed through IMAP, shows each of your tags as separate IMAP folders.
So you may end up downloading some mail twice, but your overall structure will be preserved for backup purposes.