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Backing Up Gmail With Synology • davegallant

https://davegallant.ca/blog/2022/03/13/backing-up-gmail-with-synology/

pmyerscough commented 1 year ago

Hi, wondering if there are any more thoughts on this? My Gmail is IMAP-ed to a Thundebird client. I thought I could transfer mails off-line (ie on LAN) from here to MailPlus and then clear-out a good portion of my Gmail account. This maybe rather different from your set-up? Any comments welcome! PaulM

davegallant commented 1 year ago

Hi. It sounds like you are interested in doing a one time mail migration? It might be worth checking this out: https://kb.synology.com/en-vn/DSM/help/MailPlus-Server/mailplus_server_mail_migrate?version=7

If you want to do it all over LAN, exporting the emails from the Thunderbird client and then importing them into MailPlus would likely work.

xax-git commented 1 year ago

Thanks. Helped a lot. Backuping my 77k emails now. Vision of loosing access to it was my nightmare for months.

helloprivit commented 1 year ago

I'm looking at synology option for Gmail backup. But I'm wondering if a user deletes an email and it goes to the trash which ultimately gets permanently deleted after certain number of days. Does the deleted email stay with the synology device or is it a direct mirror of the email and it to is.gone from the backup as well?

davegallant commented 1 year ago

@helloprivit POP3 only supports one-way email syncing. In this case, any deleted email will stay on the Synology device, if it was previously forwarded to it.