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I continually fill up Gmail accounts. I was hoping it could download the messages and then delete them free up space. Then we would have a message backup, but could free up space for the new emails to come.

I would be interested in marketing this. Can you guys contact me at tranquilblue.com about this?

-Johnny
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There doesn't seem to be a way to backup only a selected folder within an account.
This would be very useful as I use the account for several different activities and wish to back them up separately.

I am extremely happy to discover this application and feel much more secure since downloading all my GMail. Would you please consider adding the ability to schedule running backups automatically? To be able to run one daily would be great.

Looks like some of you have figured out how to use the Linux version on the Mac command line. Could someone post instructions/steps on how to do this? Any help is appreciated!

backup the emails from only selected label will be also great

Dear Sir,
I am high end user of gmail. I am also ready to pay any reasonable amount to purchase any backup service which can solve my following problems:
I am searching for the software or service on the internet since 3 years to backup my gmail account completely. I am surprised I am unable to do so. Difficulties with Thunderbird method is that it treats labels as folders, gmail backup is that it do not support multiple labels in good and too much buggy, Backupify online service do not support multiple gmail labels, other softwares I also purchased but no luck.

Could this tool be extended so I can transfer mails from my old imap server to gmail or google apps?

I used to use imapsync until now but it is no longer free :-(

Gmail Backup now marks all mail that is backuped as read. It would be great if the read/unread status would remain as it is.

First of all: Great program, very thanks!

I use it under Linux (CLI) but I saw that the software isn't keep read/write flag for messages backupped.

In fact if I have 4 new messages into Gmail after ran gmail-backup I see 0 new messages.

It's possible keep original permission (pre gmail-backup activity) of messages?

Thanks

I've just finished the backup for last 3 years and it's like 30K .eml files in a single folder, making it very, very slow to open (most of file-systems are usually not very good with that much files in a single dir) and also hard to use in any meaningful way.