Some of you perhaps have no idea to backup your gmail inbox. Performing email backup is not an easy task. There is a way to backing up Gamil ibox. You can use a email backup software to backup Gmail Inbox. There are lot of email backup software available for free. One of them is GMail Backup. GMail Backup is can be used to backup and restore your GMail mailbox. In order to do backup or restore operation using this email backup software, you need to an internet connection and activate the IMAP access to your mailbox, first.
When Gamil backup operation completed, the messages in your Gmail inbox are stored in your computer local directory. The backup files will named with this format, YYYYMMDD-hhmmss-nn.eml. The YYYY is the year, MM the month number, DD is the day number, hh are hours, mm are minutes and ss are seconds when the e-mail was sent.
For the case there is more emails with the same timestamp there is the number nn which starts with value 1. Label assignment is stored in the file labels.txt which is the plain text file and it pairs the emails stored in the file described above with the assigned labels.
How to activate IMAP Access on GMail
To activate the IMAP access in Gmail, go to Gmail account. Klik on Setting on the upper Right corner of Gmail window. At the Setting page, klik Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab. Under POP/IMAP tab activate Enable IMAP option. Save the changes you’ve made by clicking on Save Changes button.
