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October 27th, 2008 by eyal | Filed under Uncategorized. |
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"As a result, Fed Chairman Bernanke and his colleagues may eventually have to drive the benchmark overnight rate close to zero to resuscitate the economy. " Obvious similaries to Japan, let's hope the myriad of actions and speed prove more effective this time.
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Nice. Downloaded a bunch of old emails from my account xyz@gmail.com and uploaded them to a new gmail account xyz-backup.@gmail.com
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A hot pursuit across the border into Syria? Or something bigger..
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תת רמה. הריאליטי שואוז האלה זה נגע.
I have my gmail backup working without a script by enabling pop on account A and setting account B to fetch from account A. Use googlemail.com instead of gmail.com for the pop domains.
However note that this method and gmail backup (if you ask it to backup everything) can cause you to become locked out of your account for a few days for “unusual account activity”. While it is known that Google doesn’t like the use of 3rd party programs messing about with gmail, I find it astounding that just using gmail’s own functions you can create “unusual account activity”.
Once it is setup and working though, it works continuously - you dont have to remember to run it.
FYI - watch out for things getting filtered into Spam on your new account, even things which were not spam on your old account. If you dont catch them, they will become lost.
I use that program both to transfer old emails to the backup account and to store a local copy. I’ve been using gmail exclusively since 2004 so I’m doing it in chunks to avoid getting this ‘unusual activity’ ban. Thanks for the tip.
For new emails I set up something similar, I forward all emails to that backup so everything coming in automatically and almost immediately gets forwarded to the backup email.
I also have a couple of hundred RSS subscription I follow using Google Reader so I imported them into the backup account.
The main thing not getting backed up by all this is sent mail. I guess for that you’d have to use an external email client but I’m not too keen on that.
If you set up the pop access I described and use “recent:” in front of the login name then it limits pop access to the last month and it gives you sent email as well.
In your backup account it should be safe to access your main account in this way. It means that any future sent messages will be backed up.
Create two new gmail accounts and try it out if you are unsure.
Cool, I’ve just tried it, seems to work well so far.