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I can kill myself if something like this happen to me…literally.
Anyone know of any tool that downloads all gmail mails for backup of something similar?

Yakito

http://betapundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-to-use-outlook-to-backup-your.html

Just used it with outlook express and worked like a charm.

Yes… it’s called Outlook. Setup POP3 access from your Outlook or Outlook Express (or Thunderbird, whatever…) e-mail client and you can keep all of your Gmail messages stored locally on your computer.

@Yakito: As said in the article, you can set up any mail client (ie Outlook, Thunderbird etc.) to download all of the mail from your GMail account onto your hard drive. Do a google search for: “Name of Your Preferred Client” +GMail and you should come up with some tutorials on how its done.

A bit of research into all the posts in that thread on google group, i noticed that all the people posting messages about lost and deleted emails have never written anything on the Google Groups before, which i think is strange. Also most of them are asking about how to contact support google in google groups, where in the first place Gmail Help leads to Google Gmail Group. Also company like Google should have enough backups of your email. If not they better have that in place soon.
-V

I question the wisdom of ever storing any important information on someone else’s server without having a local copy. Take your Gmail, forward it to an IMAP, and enjoy the benefits of both Gmail spam filtering and IMAP redundancy. Fuck POP… POP is dead.

Google apps aren’t perfect.
As of right now Orkut ( Google’s social networking site) is down.
It states “orkut is under construction.
please check back soon (= “

Murphy?

@Mike D:

Although I agree that an IMAP solution is ideal, POP is NOT dead. Gmail if anything has resurrected using POP as a viable method, even with your redundancy issue. Great thing about Gmail is that when your local email client downloads your messages via POP, those messages are automatically sent to your Gmail “archive” - there is your redundancy.

-Neil

although i mostly check my email using Gmail/Browser…

i also d/l my email using mail.app onto my MacBook… that way i have the best of both worlds… and it has proven to be very useful because i also have access to my emails via Spotlight!

worth trying out Om, if only for being able to search you emails from within OS X…

I still don’t see much upside to running POP over IMAP. There’s really only one material advantage and that is if you are running Outlook. Outlook is a bit weird about IMAP mail deletion/expunging. Other than that, IMAP wins on all counts.

I have been using Gmail for so many years, I have had no problems with this losing of data. Backing up with Outlook is not gonna solve the problem, sometimes backing up Outlook data is a nightmare. I have lost more data with Outlook than any other means. This is just some disgruntled user. Compared to Outlook, Gmail is 100% Safer.

Mike D: I think IMAP does beat POP also on all accounts, but lets be clear - the mass populace is not going to know what IMAP is, how it works, how to setup an IMAP account anywhere, etc etc…

POP in this instance gets the job done for redundancy’s sake and ease of setup and usage. You have your local copy of your e-mails that are not affected even if your Gmail account goes ape shit and starts deleting itself spontaneously. Additionally if you were to forward your Gmail to an IMAP account, you would then have to configure that account to use GMail to deliver your outbound messages as well consistency’s sake… may or may not be trivial depending on which service you may be using.

POP: Easiest to setup, offers redundancy (with Gmail’s setup anyway)

IMAP: Superior system, not for the masses, complex outbound configuration.

Let’s be clear - if GMail offered an IMAP interface to its service I would all about it!

My account won’t let me login saying my user name and password don’t match. When I try and go through the process of resetting my password it ask me a security question that I never choose nor answered. (my father’s middle name) Even so I answered the question and nothing! Google has been my home page for a long time but this has caused me to rethink this.

Another issue I have been experiencing is that some times (sporadically) e-mail sent to me fm another gmail user doesn’t get to my gmail account. I checked the Trash and Outlook (where I download e-mail) and it doesn’t appear at all. The only reason I know it was sent is because I route all of my e-mail through my domain so it comes to my crackberry as well. There’s one person w/whom this happens to me regularly.

I dont think GMail is legally obligated to backup all user’s data.

Also these thing happen. No one can write perfect code or manage systems flawlessly. People do trip on power cables :-)

Jut backup your email using a POP client.

Oh man this is harsh, I just had to spread the love. Thanks for the FYI.

Gmail Alert!…

I was just going through my feeds and came across this post on Chris Brogan’s site and about shit myself. I mean obviously nothing is 100% safe but still, you assume Google above all else has their shit together. Check it, from GigaOM.com…
…

Holy. Crap. (feverishly installing and setting up thunderbird)

I have gmail automatically forward a copy of all incoming messages to my AIM mail account. AIM mail offers free 2GB of storage and free IMAP.

The odds of both Google and AOL losing all my mail have got to be infinitely small.

Plus, I have Thunderbird on my desktop using IMAP to sync with the AIM IMAP account.

I have subscribed to few google groups and messages
get delivered to same google (gmail) account on which
groups are subscribed.

And twice I got message from “Google groups” asking to
reactivate my account as message(s) bounced back.

So I wonder if I might be losing even important email.

GMail is not as reliable as it should be, no wonder
they still call it BETA even after 2-3 years!!

P.S. I havent lost mailbox yet though! But planning
on backing it up on urgent basis.

gmail bug - user emails lost…

first i have to say that i’m a fan of google and their services. due to my google account profile i’m currently using 21 different google services. one of them is of course google’s popular mail service gmail - fortunately not as my primary mail ser…

Google says only 60 people are affected. I guess it is not as widespread. Still, it is important for people to just back their email. I use Zimbra for most of my work related email, and we back it up on the server, and locally by making a copy.

I am all about IMAP and on OSX IMAP is flawless, especially with Thunderbird, a superior email client. Anyway full marks to Google team for reaching out and trying to solve the problem. Gmail has been a success story for them (relatively speaking.)

Hey Om, where are the other parts of the semiconductor chip stories that you promised? I was looking foward to reading them.

Thanks ppl for your reply, I was asking for an online solution for backupping my mails, something more like box.net but for mails.

60 people… come on!

Someone should never lose their email, have your gmail account forward to your windows live mail account. Instant backups…

Mmm, funny to read this update.

It would probably have much more profitable for everyone (ie specifically for Google corporate reputation and personal data protections) to communicate and act with insiders.

The good point is that it’s an overall warning to all web 2.0 evangelists (whom I’m part) and users: remote platforms that offer to store your data are not (much) safer than your own in-house bricolage bazaar.

May the respect of Gusers and improvements of Gtools prevail.

How much of this new hysteria about Gmail is being generated by Microsoft employees and astroturfers working to create FUD?

Microsoft is the master of FUD, and I suspect that some of the above comments reflect its FUD.

Google Accidentally Deletes Email Of 60 Gmail Users…

GigaOM reports and Techcrunch reports that some Gmail users have noticed some of their mail or all of their mail has been deleted. It turns out that Google has responded with an official statement, explaining there was a bug that affected about 60 Gmai…

I am actually one of the people affected by this. I didn’t lose any actual emails (at least as far as I know), but I did lose all my filter rules (I had a lot), and all of the emails I had deleted returned. Also, Google Reader ‘forgot’ which articles I had read, and marked them all as unread.
So, I decided to shop around, and found Inbox.com, which offers a whopping 5GB of free email, plus contacts, calendar, notes, and file and photo storage. And to replace Google Reader I found NewsAlloy.com.
So far, I’ve been very pleased with both of them. Google isn’t the only game in town.

Gmail uses their own in house grown storage for they backend filesystems, while Yahoo, uses Netapp filers which are a lot more reliable. I’d rather use Yahoo’s mail which uses the same backend storage which my company uses to host our business critical applications.

All my emails were deleted on Sept. 1st while I was in my gmail account I was watching them disappear in front of my eyes. And I got some BS from the folks at Google saying it was my fault. The weird thing was that it also deleted all the personalized modules I had on my google homepage (google.com/ig).

The worst part was their denial and trying to make it MY fault.

Download your GMail via POP3…

Om Malik yesterday: An increasing number of GMail subscribers are complaining that their emails, accounts and archives are simply vanishing. For nearly 10 days, a strange sort of bug is simply cleaning out the GMail inboxes. An afflicted soul wrote…

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Another reason to do full and regular backups if using Gmail:

If a person’s account gets suspended due to suspected TOS violations, then all of their Gmail invitees’ accounts also get suspended. This was reported in the “help, account deleted” threads for Gmail help on Google Groups.

i.e. if Larry Page accidentally reports himself as a spammer and his account is suspended*, then mine will be suspended too: I’m an invitee of one of his invitees.

I’m not happy with, but understand the reasoning for my account being in danger if I make a mistake.

That all of my invitees, and theirs in turn, would also
lose their accounts because of my error? I didn’t know that Gmail is Amway, and that I own all my downstreams.

*although I’d bet the gmail team has VIP flags to prevent automated actions on accounts like his.

Anyone who trusts their email to any online service without retaining a copy probably hasn’t had a computer hard drive crash on them. Once you have lost your data to a crash you know it can happen to anyone. To expect absolute zero errors from a web service provider is an act of faith, not of logic. To trust all your data to a single provider (increasingly people are doing this with Google) is an act of stupidity.

Sorry, if that sounds arrogant or harsh - I try to tell everyone I meet not to do it and get a look like I am the idiot or paranoid. This not only can happen but will happen more than once. It’s a statistical thing.
Do you want to play the odds with your email inbox?

Mike D., one thing you get from POP that you don’t get from IMAP (unless you use the offline option)
is a local copy - often I need data in an email message and I am not online - but I have a copy in my POP folder on my laptop.

Especially with email, don’t have a single copy and that too online.

Back Up Your Gmail…

Recently some news emerged on the internet that some gmail users lost some or even all of their mails that have been in that account. There is no obvious way to backup the mail that exists in your gmail account. You could probably forward the important…

Whenever I try to log into Gmail, I get a message saying my username and password do not match. Then it prompts me to enter a code as it appears on the screen. Then nothing.

Does anyone know where I can find out how to fix this? How do I contact Google?

Strangely enough, I am encountering a log in error for my Yahoo email as well.

Any ideas???

please help!!

Thanks

I have recently fallen foul of the ‘your account has been suspended’ problem, a have all the people i invited to join Gmail. I dont send spam or to my knowledge, propagate it, nor do any of the few people i invited! Contactin Google is a hopless notion and the link to their help page takes you to a page that says nothing about what to do if your account is suspended.

I know it’s free but for gods sake surely this shouldn’t happen…!

Gmail is going crazy, according to several articles I’ve read. Does anyone know how to contact them for Gmail support?

Please help!!

Thanks

backing up gmail is easy enough to do thanks to the POP access, but what happens to all the label information? if you spend time assigning labels to emails, how do you back up THAT meta data?

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I had the ‘login does not match password’ problem at the weekend (13/14 Jan) and it is still not letting me in.
I think someone’s hacked into my account and changed the password. All my gmails are forwarded to my work email, so suddenly I start getting all these random emails from spammers sent via gmail to my work address.
Google have done bugger all to help me. Really annoyed as I’m a freelance journalist and without access to my gmail, I now have to find another reliable email that has enough storage space.
So. Pissed. Off. I. Could. STAB.

Darn…I lost all gmail between 11/06/06 and 2/1/07.
Have no idea how or why…

its 4th Feb and i just discovered i’ve lost all my emails from my gmail. sheesh!!!! everything is wiped out from all my folders including my precious contacts!!! IS gMAIL DOING ANYTHING ABT GETTING THOSE EMAILS BACK TO ME???

Two mornings 06/02/07 ago I could not login to my googlemail account. I need to urgently and it’s been 48 hours and all i’ve got from google is one automated response?! Reading this forum and others I don’t hold out much hope??!! Yes it’s free but have you ever heard of this happening with yahoo? I haven’t.

I can’t login to gmail. This is driving me nuts. I get the “username and password do not match” for both my gmail accounts, which is just wonderful. Anyone have any luck with theirs?
I’m too impatient to wait 5 days without trying to login.

I’ve just discovered that some of my mail has disappeared as well. Luckily, I forwarded the most important ones to another account. The strange thing is gmail doesn’t even have a record of the forwards in my sent mail. Beware, backup your mail.

Well I’ve been getting the ‘username and password do not match’ thing too, I use gmail all the time and definitely have not forgotten my password. I tried to reset my password but didn’t receive an email at my secondary address and the security question asked after five days asked a question I’d never provided an answer for.

Not very helpful to know, but thought I’d add my name to the seemingly growing list of people who have been let down by gmail.

“Unfortunately your account has taken out.
More information in Google help center http://www.google.com/support blaa blaa”

GREAT! all of my 86% usage has disappeared, without any explanations, i’m using my e-mail only for personal purposes like hobbies (extreme sport, web page projects etc.)

It seems that it’s really true that Google=Microsoft. I’m not happy, i really chrust and liked to use Gmail. Now it’s only blaa blaa mail for me… this s*cks!

Take a back up of your accounts, don’t be as stupid as i was…

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Lost my personal homepage settings on two google accounts today. It was simply reset somehow… really strange and discomforting. I really depend on google services It would be a hellride if this happended to my gmail or docs…

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Last Sunday I tried to change my password, but I couldn’t log back in with my new password. I couldn’t believe that I had to wait five days to answer my challenge question. This is obnoxious! I’m furious over this. Not only am I locked out of my email, but my Google documents, my blog, and my site traffic analytics.

I will definitely begin backing up my Gmail on a local client (if I continue to use the product at all).

Unfortunately, I’m stuck in the penalty box all week, for the simple crime of changing my password.

Google users, beware!

Yes, it happened to me. I just came home and nearly four years of emails are gone forever. And 500 contacts. I use gmail for work and I am a writer and college proffessor and I save all my writing, all my students work, basically everything in my life in my gmail. I spent the afternoon crying my eyes out, and no one from google seems to care or be able to do anything about it. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me. I do not recommend backing anything up, I recommend never using gmail ever again and telling everyone on earth to do the same.

I, too, am very dismayed at what just happened to me. After spending over an hour writing an important e-mail, I hit send. I was told my session had timed out, and was sent to the log-in page to sign back in. My hopes that my e-mail had been saved were not to be rewarded. Nope, just one measley paragraph was still there. Mind you, I’ve used Gmail since its inception, and have had many multiple-day sessions that NEVER timed out, so I was horrified that this one did.

After finding no way to report the problem, I reverted to my mail to find an address that was once available on their site. I sent an e-mail and received the response that nobody would be reviewing my e-mail, ever. What kind of horsepoop is that? I realize this service is free, but there are plenty of competitors to give me free e-mail, if Google wants me to find one of them.

Since I, too, use this address for important work, I can’t afford to have e-mails lost in the middle of composing them. I will have to carefully consider whether I continue to use Gmail in the future.

jus spent hours trying to configure pop..
thunderbird says its not them..
bandwidth provider says its not them either..

i get multiple downloads of the same msg, with diff attachment sizes… wtf?

and worse i cleared my whole gmail ac and deleted everything to start a fresh…

it downloads mesages i already deleted .. wtf again?

GOOGLE !! DO SOME THING!! Arghhhh u got a repo to save dude.

I haven’t been able to log into my gmail account in the last 6 days. Gmail sent me the 5 day login today - same thing. Now, the email says they do not show the secondary email address I provided. I could cry! Don’t you just love how there are NO PHONE NUMBERS anywhere on the google website - no one wants to talk to us! I’ve sent 3 emails, but no responses.

Gmail SUCKS!!!!! One fine day, gmail does not allow me to access the inbox. I knew my password and Iam 100% confident that I have entered the correct one, but it displays “username and password does not match”……… I have using this password for almost one year……. Even the secondary email does not seem to be associated…… I could not get in to my inbox…..This is pathetic###### hate GMAIL!!!!!

deepak, Im currently having the same problem username/pw rejected im 100% sure that they are correct. I used the recover password option which said they would send me instructions to my alternative email but as of yet I have received nothing.

I even tried signing up a second account but had the same problem.

Has this problem reoccured??????

i’m having the exact same problem and this is very recent. my session timed out, i couldn’t login and i KNOW my password, i’m 100% positive it’s correct. it’s even in my firefox form filler exactly the way it’s been entering for months. all i get is a catpcha screen i get “welcome to gmail” in the title bar then captcha, then i try again same thing in a loop. NO ONE is responding to me, there’s no numbers to call, no people answering e-mail just the same automated response i’ve been told a 1000 times.

thank u Gmail!! i lose all my 2007 e-mails!!! U SUCK (just 60 users?????? no support for users.. and u are GOOGLE patner!!! u are simply ridicolous!!)
better yahoo with unlimited space!!! sorry me but im too much angry!!

antonio

Malc,
No response from Gmail yet…. I waited for 5 days, they asked me a security question, which I have never heard in my life…… “Enter your frequent flyer number” I dont know what the heck is wrong with these people….Google shares are soaring.. But, they never mind about their users…. Once again, Gmail SUCKS!!!!!

To everyone that’s freaking out over this: GMail is a beta. Beta’s aren’t always stable. If you want stable e-mail, use something that isn’t a beta. Google is in no way responsible for lost data while you’re using a beta. If you don’t like it, go somewhere else. It’s just that simple. You can’t always blame the developers for problems that arise. They manage a lot of e-mail, and have a lot of users. I’d love to see any of you computer illiterates give that a shot.

Oh!!!!!! Thats a great news….. GMAIL activated my email account after approx.45 days. I have sent them a mail to gmail support team to get this done.

VERY SLOW RESPONSE…. BUT MY ACCOUNT IS ACTIVE NOW

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I’ve lost all the emails I had on my gmail account from January 2007 until July 2007. Could you please help me on how to solve this problem?

Thanks!!

Cecilia

Same as Malc here….logged in fine on Friday and Saturday morning they told me my password was wrong. Waited patiently for 5 days and now they’re asking me for my frequent flyer number!?!?!? I have no access to any email (I dropped my secondary when I got on gmail 2 years ago). I hear everyone’s list of problems but has anyone actually been able to get back on and have access again? Any success stories in the bunch? SO SAD!!!

I just saw all my Gmail disappear, but luckily I am protected with pop forwarding, so I have copies of everything.

Now I am starting to worry as to whether this same “bug or virus” could affect Google’s Desktop program? The fact that many of us have trusted Google on our systems, makes me wonder if it is time to toss Google Desktop aside and start looking for a comercial version made by someone else, that will not put my data at risk.

I’m a writer, and recently, I had to switch computers, so I sent all of my writings to myself through G-Mail. But somhow–just today–it all got deleted and I have no idea why. I am extremely upset about this because I’m afraid that I’ve just lost more than half of everything I’ve ever written.

I am desperately hoping that this is just temporary and that I will get everything back in my inbox soon. If I can’t get it back, then I don’t know what I’ll do…

Would like to change reset email and username

I checked my gmail account on Nov 22nd and all my mail between Oct. 4th to Nov. 22nd just disappeared. I checked the trash and nothing. It’s gone.

December 1, 2007.

The problem with Gmail still exists. I lost several emails from my ‘INBOX’ over the last few weeks. I did notice this all these days, but when I went looking for these emails, they have vanished.
Is anyone else having the similar problems?

For some strange reason, my Gmail password no longer works. When you try to reset it, they tell you to check your secondary e-mail address that you used when you signed up for the GMail account. Of course, they don’t tell you what the e-mail address is, and if it’s inactive you have to wait FIVE days before you’re allowed to answer a security question!!!

Its Dec 2007, and the same error has occurred my gmail account is down & unaccessible i hope i don’t loose e-mails, so far there is silence from the gSanta….

Xmas 2007 and I just opened up my gmail to find it completely empty… labels, contacts, mail… everything gone. frak

My Gmail is always missing every month or so it all goes down the tubes. I contact support and there no help at all.Does anyone know a phone number for support because online support is non existant

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As of yesterday, 01/13/08, I can only see the last five emails on my home page. When I try to open the inbox, i see the message that it is done but I only have an empty screen. The same is true when I go to my account and click gmail. This is on my machine that has 512 meg memory.

However on my other machine with the 2 gigs of memory, I can open the inbox and see all the emails I have.

Can you help me to retrieve these items on my one computer?

Joe, I’m having the same problem. I’m not so sure it has anything to do with your memory. On my PC, the problem happens when using IE, but if I use Safari for Windows on the same machine it doesn’t happen. I found that in IE, I can delete the “#” from the end of the broken url and add “&ui=1″ and it links me to my inbox.

Same as so many above me, Gmail has locked me out, says the password isn’t working, no explanation, filled in the support form, this is a nightmare!

FUCK GMAIL. Had my account for only about a month now, and today for the SECOND TIME they are telling me my password is incorrect, which it is not…now I’m fucked for at least five days since google never sends any emails to the secondary email I provided. It makes no sense either that I need to wait an arbitrary number of days before I can again set up my password.
I’ve never heard of so many unrelated (and repeated!) problems with any other email server. I’m going back to Excite…10 years of email with excite.com and never ANY login problems!
Gmail=fart.
a slow and painful liquidy fart.

Ever since we switched to Gmail we often have a problem getting our email messages. It is very unreliable and we are sorry we changed to Gmail. They tell us that our password is incorrect each time we try to get onto our email. We thought Google was the best until this happened. What is the matter with you people? Unfortunately, we are living in a society of mediocrity! The people who work for you just don’t care. We are very disappointed in Google’s Gmail. They don’t recognize our password each time. We are very disgusted with your poor service. What is the matter with your Google system?

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We were residents of France. About 6 months back we moved to Morocco for good. Thus doing away with the france telecom etc.. having pai up all france telecom bills. Now ’s the real catch 22 story that starts.

01) With all france telecom bills paid and the yearly subscription etc brought to a halt: my wanadoo email (france telecom) obviousely was also inactive.

02) wanadoo telecom was my secondary email id given while getting the gmail adress.

03) in this move from France to Morocco - i totally forgot my gmail password…….. AND AND AND i am completely stuck unable to retrieve any message from my gmail id!!!!!!!! CAN YOU HELP ? Am writting this after having done a whole lot of,excercises in you gmail website which gives you the feel that whatever comes by YOU WILL BE ASSISTED…..WOW that sounds real good - but in reality there’s NO WAY I GOT ANY ASSISTANCED - and till date all my messages remain in YOUR POSESSION without my being able to access !!!!!!!!!

Today I lost all my Gmail emails, junk etc. Completely gone. Any ideas to get them back as some are important. Thanks

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I did all the right things, waited 5 days, tried to fill out a support form, but NOTHING will work! The support form won’t even recognize my username as a valid format, although I’ve retyped it about 9 times, and I’m positive its correct!!! I am so frustrated, and have no idea how to get in contact with anyone at gmail to help me fix this…