I'm giving my neglected gmail a treat today For Windows users:
Highly recommended. IMAPSize lets you do things to your IMAP
email (like [1]#Gmail ) - like back it up to your local
computer, find large attachments that might be slowing down your
gmail retrieval, etc.* While you can read emails with it (I
think), it's strengths are that it handles all the maintenance
tasks that one might imagine and even some things you might not.
I've been on Gmail from the Beta days and always wanted to be
able to back it up.* I've done some manual cleanups but really,
what I wanted is to back it up into standard text files (.eml or
.mbox) really easily just in case Gmail one day decides to go
away.* [because Google does have a bad habit of taking away
services it gets bored with) and with many years worth of stuff
shoved in there, it'll be nice to have a local copy. Anyway,
it's a tool that's good for what it's good for and it's handling
my overly huge gmail without any trouble.* Oh and it's freeware
and lots of reputable recommendations.* Similar tools exist for
linux and I was jealous but then I found this.
http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/index.php
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