From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Rudin Subject: Re: OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 08:02:18 +0000 Message-ID: <86oaqg8f79.fsf@rudin.co.uk> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: 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-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org 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. >> 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.