Recently we needed to have backups for old email accounts in our Google apps account. We needed to free up some space and a way to reference back to the emails in these accounts.

I’ve found various options with Thunderbird and Mac Mail. But all require to play with the off-line or sync features. Also I needed something that I could run from the backup server without moving 25GB of email from one computer to another. After couple queries in google, I found a good solution which was using getmail to retrieve emails from POP Gmail accounts.

So, here it is. Please remember to activate POP or IMAP feature in your Gmail account settings before start.

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