Backup GMAIL Messages with Python

[Chris Lambacher]

fetchmail worked for me.  You have to be patient though because it takes a
while for all of your mail to become available for pop download.

-Chris
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 08:43:32PM -0400, Gregory Pi?ero wrote:
> On 8/5/06, Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com> wrote:
> >     While you can write a script, its quite easy to turn on POP and run
> > a client side mail client like Thunderbird.
> 
> Good point, Neil.  This is a very tempting option, I just wanted to
> include it in a backup script rather than having to open up
> Thunderbird once a day.
> 
> -Greg
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