Re: OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies

[Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>]

* Paul Rudin <paul@rudin.co.uk> wrote:
> Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
>> * Paul Rudin <paul@rudin.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> But you can pull all your email out of gmail via pop or imap, so
>>> it's not like you'll lose your emails. 
>>
>> There are cases where people lost access to Gmail instantly because
>> of false accusations or idendity theft. You have to prepare *now*
>> for not losing yous emails if you don't synchronize often.
>>
> Sure, but that kind of thing could happen with pretty much any third
> party service.

Yes. That's the point, when you do not consider open source services
as third party services.

>>> At worst you'd lose your email address (although if you register a
>>> domain name then you can keep your email address and still use
>>> gmail for as long as it's there and some other provider later).
>>
>> You'll lose some more. At least you are going to lose your labels
>> AFAIR.
>
> Labels map to mailboxes if you access your gmail via imap IIRC, so you
> don't really lose that information.

AFAIR do you lose information for sure: you can't have combinations
of labels (e.g., +important+business) as mailboxes and you can't
export this information in a meaningful way for migration.

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