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HaCK 48:
Google claims that you never have to delete your emails again
with Gmail. But what if you delete something accidentally—or you
delete it because you want to make more storage available, but
you realize later that you want it back?
To back up all your Gmail emails—just in case!—you can install the free email client Mozilla Thunderbird
(or another similar program), download all your messages, and then back up the le that contains all
your email. You can then burn this le onto a CD, DVD, or copy it to a hard drive—anywhere where you
can keep it safe. Then you can restore it at any time, even if you’ve deleted the messages in Gmail, or
even if you no longer have the Gmail account. Here are the steps involved:
For this hack to work, you need to activate POP in your Gmail. POP is short for Post Ofce Protocol,
and it’s a standard way to retrieve messages from an email server. Go to Gmail and click Settings→
Forwarding and POP. Check the “Enable POP for all mail” box and save your changes. You are now
ready to access your Gmail messages with a desktop client, such as Thunderbird.
To install Mozilla Thunderbird, point your browser to http://mozilla.com/thunderbird/ and click the
Download Thunderbird button. You will be asked to save an executable le on your disk. Run the
installer and complete the setup. ...