Re: [O] OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies

[Paul Rudin]

Karl Voit <address@hidden> writes:

> * Paul Rudin <address@hidden> 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.

>> 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.