Step by step instructions to go down your Gmail

Google's prevalent Gmail benefit offers free email accounts with adequate memory, quick hunt, and access from any Web program. Yet, keeping all your mail in Google's cloud is unsafe: any system end issue between your Mac and your Google server may bring about your email being briefly distant, while Server glitch or client blunder can wipe out your spared messages for a long time. You can limit the danger of losing your email by moving down your Gmail account content.

Both of the reinforcement methods I said here expect access to your Gmail account by means of IMAP, crippled as a matter of course. Along these lines, your initial step is to sign in to your Gmail account, tap the rigging symbol in the upper right corner, and select Mail settings from the popup menu. At that point tap the Forwarding and POP/IMAP connection and ensure chosen IMAP is chosen. If not, select it and snap Save Changes.

Neighborhood reinforcement 

The most secure and least expensive approach to move down your Gmail is to download all your mail with an IMAP customer, for example, Apple Mail (), Microsoft Outlook () or Mozilla Thunderbird. In the event that you utilize a customer application instead of a Web program, or a program based application like Mailplane, () to get to your Gmail account, at that point expect your settings are right (like me in a minute), you will consequently store a neighborhood duplicate of each message.

On the off chance that you as of now utilize the IMAP customer for different records, you can include your Gmail account simply like some other IMAP account. Google has a site with itemized setup directions for most well known IMAP customers (and I give better guidelines to Apple Mail in this TidBits article). Be that as it may, notwithstanding setting up your record as depicted there, ensure your customer is set to adjust all messages, as takes after:

• In Apple Mail, select Mail - > Preferences, click Account, and select your Gmail account in the rundown on the left. Snap Advanced and from the menu, turn on reinforcement duplicates for disconnected review, select All messages and their connections. 

• In Outlook 2011, select Outlook - > Options, click Account and select your Gmail account in the rundown on the left. Snap Advanced, and after that snap Server. check Always Download Complete Message Bodies stamped and unchecked Only in inbox. Snap OK and close the Preferences window. 

• In Thunderbird, select Tools - > Account Settings. In the rundown on the left, in your Gmail account, select Sync and chronicling. Make a point to keep messages for this record. On This PC is chosen, select Synchronize every single nearby message paying little mind to age, and uncheck Do not download messages more prominent than __ KB. Additionally, click Advanced and ensure all the Gmail organizers you need to go down have a checkmark in the Downloads section. Snap OK to expel every exchange box. 

With your client set up accurately, you should simply make sure to dispatch and check your Gmail record (or let it consequently check) once per day. Make certain to run it sufficiently long to download all your mail before leaving.

Once your mail has been downloaded to the IMAP customer, you have two duplicates of each email - one on your Mac and one on Google's servers. Be that as it may, since IMAP keeps your email program and Gmail in a state of harmony, erasing a message in one of two spots (regardless of whether inadvertently) likewise influences it to vanish from others. In this way, for included security, make sure to utilize Time Machine or another reinforcement program of your decision to keep your neighborhood records - including downloaded messages - went down.