Tuesday 5 March 2013

How to Move or Copy Mail from One Gmail Account to Another (Using Only Gmail)

Gmail Backup: doing security copies of emails conveniently Gmail:

Gmail Backup is a tool that helps us to make backups (backups) of our email from Gmail on the hard drive of your computer, this tool is capable of operating systems used on Windows, Mac and Linux, can be executed even from any terminal using commands or a graphical interface.

To save our mail on the hard disk is all you need to change your Gmail settings and enable IMAP access, which is a kind of port that can be opened as required by the owner of the account, we need to turn go to the options bar tools our e Gmail and search "Forwarding and POP / IMAP" tab on this go to the option that says "Enable IMAP" mark and accept the changes. The files will be stored on a hard drive will have a format known as EML, this format are used by electronic mail are stored in text messages and attachments, but our program you can translate Gmail Backup for us.

In the graphical version of Gmail Backup is very easy to use just not fill the spaces on the account as the mail name, the password, the folder to save the mail and dates, just by clicking on the button backup the program automatically will be keeping all our mail, something different is in text mode Linux especially since we have to enter this command reference "sh-backup.sh gmail backup directory usuario@gmail.com password "Obviously we have to change the Portions of this command where it says "Directory" with the path where we want to save our mail, the user by our username, password type the password in at the end of this command must write the date to this format year / month / day, This command is also valid for users of Windows you are using text mode, all you have to remove are the initial letters "sh" and replace with "exe", which is the extension of an executable.

When executing these commands create a file called STAMP in the directory where you put your email to be stored in this file may be printed date where ah begun to save the emails and only get new emails according to those who have not yet been downloaded.

This tool still in development but operates very stable in any of the three operating systems it supports.

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