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Gmail backup script

Published: Thu 07 July 2011

By Andrew Jennings

Sometimes I worry that all my emails are stored on Google's servers and if they ever lost them, then I would be hurting in a bad way. And it would only be my own fault because I had never backed them up anywhere.

So I wrote a simple Python script to download all my emails and save them in files on my local hard drive.

Here it is on GitHub: https://github.com/abjennings/gmail-backup

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