Re: [Boston.pm] Best Gmail module

>> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:36:40, Joel Gwynn 
>> <joelman-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

   > I'm realizing how crucial gmail has become to my life, and it's a
   > little scary.  I need to back up at least the important emails.
   > There seem to be quite a few CPAN modules for accessing gmail.  I
   > don't need anything fancy.  Just something to retrieve emails and
   > save them locally.

Sounds like POP3 to me.  Is there something wrong with enabling POP
access in your Gmail preferences and using that?

Only one of the perl modules would let you backup the mailbox without
generating BSD mbox format yourself, as far as I can see, and that's:

   http://search.cpan.org/~krs/GMail-IMAPD-0.93/lib/GMail/IMAPD.pm

You could perhaps also use one of the applications on this page, but
that wouldn't be Perlish:

   http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/gmailapps.htm
   
- Chris.
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Chris Ball                                        
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