This sounds more like a situation where you just don't trust GMail to keep your older emails, but you still really need cloud access to the current/recent email.
What you might find most useful is a hybrid setup.
Use a local store (fetchmail-into-mbox, thunderbird on POP, IMAP/Backup, etc...) on a system at home that you don't mind running as a server and have that download everything, read-only, from GMail and keep it forever in a small/light IMAP server like qmail-toaster as Eric Shubert suggests.
Set the gmail to archive and remove (might need to enable a lab for this) anything over some reasonable age (perhaps 1 year?) so it serves as a cloud-based cache for "recent" email without all the old stuff.
Use a caching IMAP client on the laptop to access gmail while on the road (gmail with offline enabled, Thunderbird in IMAP mode with local storage enabled, etc...).
Have another client at home to read from your archive server for older messages that won't be in your GMail any more.
There are a lot of variations on that structure. The primary idea being to split the huge volume of old emails from the smaller "current" volume (for whatever timeframe you consider "current").
Just a thought.
Joseph Sinclair
Jim March wrote:
> Well gmail-backup looked like a good idea but it depends on python 2.5
> - I have 2.6, it refuses to execute the shell script on that basis.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:
>> or this...
>>
>> http://www.gmail-backup.com/download
>>
>> again, just googled it, can't vouch for quality.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It sounds like a method to download all emails to a database initially,
>>> then keep up with emails at a normal rate.
>>> What about something like this -
>>> http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/imap-backup.php - I just googled it, I
>>> can't vouch for quality...
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Alan Dayley <adayley@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I don't have an answer to your main question, just questions. �In your
>>>>> original post you stated:
>>>>>
>>>>> "And it has to allow streaming it all in continuously. �We're talking
>>>>> about almost 6gig."
>>>>>
>>>>> These requirements are not clear to me.
>>>> Ah. �Yeah. �My bad.
>>>>
>>>> OK, I have nearly six gigs in Gmail right now. �There's gotta
>>>> be...heck, I dunno, 30,000 messages in my inbox alone. �Thousands in
>>>> "sent". �God ONLY knows what's in the spam trap.
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to take an empty local EMail client, point it at that
>>>> beeyatch and say "open up and say aaaahhhh" one evening with the
>>>> laptop on a fast pipe, and go to bed.
>>>>
>>>> When I wake up, I want that stuff held locally.
>>>>
>>>> If I have to restart the download every 700 or 900 or whatever
>>>> messages, it'll take frackin' forever. �I need it to suck that stuff
>>>> down unattended. �And I'll make sure I have enough local disk space to
>>>> eat it all.
>>>>
>>>> Once it's synced the first time, then it's pretty easy to keep up.
>>>> It's gonna be that first download that will be a complete and utter
>>>> PITA.
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>> Jim
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