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I'm looking to backup my GMail account along with all of my Google chats ~ 20,000 conversations.

I know there is some talk about IMAP and POP and I'm not sure what to do.

I have Outlook on my computer and I know that there are options with that.

I just want to have a backup of everything, preferably so I can store it locally.

Jack Saltiel
2011-08-22 19:36:00
Actually I played with all that before I found the forum. IMAP works fine on my Android phone and Outlook worked acceptably (not great) until about two weeks ago when it started getting very very very slow.
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Ny51bern
2011-08-21 17:03:00
Thanks for your response. From what I gather, I need to forward my Gchats via email?
Ny51bern
2011-08-21 17:10:00
ah I missed that link. Thanks a lot!  http://freshhorse.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/leaving-gmail-and-bringing-your-chats-with-you/
2011-08-21 16:47:00
Makeuseof guidehttp://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-backup-your-gmail-account-to-your-computer/You attach chat logs to an email and send them to Thunderbird.---Open a chat log---Click down arrow next to Reply.---Click Forward---Type in your address that you want chat log sent to---Click Send buttonIMAP importhttp://collincode.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/imap-import/http://collincode.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/google-chat-history-downloader/Leaving Gmail, and Bringing Your Chats With Youhttp://freshhorse.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/leaving-gmail-and-bringing-your-chats-with-you/If you have a Google Plus account, you can easily download just about everything you have made available on the service.http://www.howtogeek.com/68863/how-to-downloadbackup-your-gmail-google-calendar-and-docs-data/How To Completely Back Up Your Google Account Fileshttp://www.tested.com/news/how-to-completely-back-up-your-google-account-files/1233/Google Groupshttp://www.techbuzz.in/how-can-i-backup-google-mail-gmail-details-history.php(via the GMail web interface) just bring them up one at a time, click on the print button, and then save the resulting page as HTML. Alternately, you can use the "View Original" option in the dropdown on the message to save the RFC2822 source (the chat as HTML, in a MIME subpart of an email message).IM-Historyhttp://www.download32.com/im-history-i53916.htmlGmailKeeperhttp://gmailkeeper.com/Spicebirdhttp://www.spicebird.com/
Jeffery Fabish
2011-08-21 09:01:00
Hi Alex,Is this link of any help? The POP and IMAP protocols allow you to download your emails, odds are very good your email provider uses one of these. (SMTP is only for sending email)
Ny51bern
2011-08-21 15:07:00
I tried Outlook and it only downloaded emails, and not Gchats..
Tina
2011-08-25 11:50:00
Yeah, chat logs are not downloaded via POP. I see the same when using Thunderbird.