Gmail: Backup on Linux in four easy steps

If you’re one of the Linux users, who uses Gmail, you may sure want to take back of your emails. Matt Cutts has written a post “How to back up your Gmail on Linux in four easy steps”, where he show step-by-step procedure to use getmail on Unix to backup your Gmail or Google Apps email.

Here’re some apps to backup your email:

If you use Windows, you can back up your email using Thunderbird or you can use Outlook to backup your email.
If you run Mac OS X (Leopard), you can back up your Gmail using Apple Mail. For the rest of this post, I’ll assume you’re running a flavor of Linux such as Ubuntu.
If you need a ton of flexible power or run your own mail server, fetchmail could be a good choice.
If you want something really fast, retchmail might fit your needs.
If you want a nice mix of simple configuration and flexibility, I really recommend a Python program called getmail. This’s what we’ll be using in this post.