Backup GMAIL Messages with Python

[Gregory Piñero]

On 5 Aug 2006 15:27:03 -0700, Simon Forman <rogue_pedro at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why do you want to _backup_ a gmail account?  (I use
> my gmail account to backup files and documents I never want to lose.)
> I could think of some reasons, but I'm wondering what yours are. : )

Here are a few:

   1. Google could turn evil someday (and delete everyones' data?)
   2. Google coud lose or delete data by accident
   3. You could lose your internet connection for an extended period of time
   4. You may want to move to a different email software in the future
and am not able to export from Google calendar at that time(see reason
1)

Update on my question:
getmail looks like another option: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/
but not cross platform?

-Greg