Like so many others, I want to backup about 10 GB+ of emails, plus everything currently residing in MS Outlook, plus any archived PSTs I still have. It’s at least 100,000 emails; 10+ years.
I want to backup everything together, then remove most of the old mail from my main gMail account.
As I learn about IMAP, and how changes in one place become universal, well, before I make a mess and lose data, I want to verify…
After I make EMC completely functional with one gMail account, and after I import ALL of my Outlook 2007 content (including folders – after I learn how to do this), once I have everything loaded to my local drive (not just headers), can I create a new, fresh, empty gMail account and simply copy everything from the full email account to the empty fresh one as a sort of “backup”? I know this is not the built-in backup function…yet it would be another copy living on the Google servers AS a backup…
Essentially, my plan is to send copies of everything to the new gMail account, then delete everything older than a year from the original gMail account in order to pare down it’s bulk. I know this will take a lot of time, yet the computer and your software will be doing the heavy lifting --if I have the correct plan and proper settings.
Have I got this right? Is my thinking flawed or on-target?
Many thanks in advance
DrCarl