From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Re: OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:46:25 +0100 Message-ID: <2015-01-11T11-44-39@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: <87k31acov5.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> <99D74CD0-215E-463F-86BE-21BD99809341@agrarianresearch.org> <2014-12-31T11-24-01@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <2014-12-31T14-37-55@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <87fvbvonrp.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <2015-01-01T17-21-17@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <87wq55cv2d.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <874ms99slv.fsf@rudin.co.uk> <2015-01-02T17-46-25@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <86oaqg8f79.fsf@rudin.co.uk> Reply-To: Karl Voit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAG2h-0007py-7B for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 05:46:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAG2d-0007t5-W5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 05:46:47 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40213) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAG2d-0007st-Ou for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 05:46:43 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YAG2c-0003rG-5T for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:46:42 +0100 Received: from friends.grml.info ([136.243.234.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:46:42 +0100 Received: from news1142 by friends.grml.info with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:46:42 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org * Paul Rudin wrote: > Karl Voit writes: > >> * Paul Rudin wrote: >>> >>> But you can pull all your email out of gmail via pop or imap, so >>> it's not like you'll lose your emails. >> >> There are cases where people lost access to Gmail instantly because >> of false accusations or idendity theft. You have to prepare *now* >> for not losing yous emails if you don't synchronize often. >> > Sure, but that kind of thing could happen with pretty much any third > party service. Yes. That's the point, when you do not consider open source services as third party services. >>> At worst you'd lose your email address (although if you register a >>> domain name then you can keep your email address and still use >>> gmail for as long as it's there and some other provider later). >> >> You'll lose some more. At least you are going to lose your labels >> AFAIR. > > Labels map to mailboxes if you access your gmail via imap IIRC, so you > don't really lose that information. AFAIR do you lose information for sure: you can't have combinations of labels (e.g., +important+business) as mailboxes and you can't export this information in a meaningful way for migration. -- mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode: > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on github