You can backup your Gmail account in several ways. To backup your messages in gamil using thunderbird, follow the steps given below:
- Login to Gmail
- Click on settings in the top right corner
- Go to the Forwarding and Pop link or tab
- Click on Enable Pop for all mail
- Then again click Forwarding and Pop link or tab
- Click on Keep Gmail's copy in the inbox from the drop down menu.
- Click the "Save Chages" button.
- Then open or download Thunderbird if you don't have
- Once inside the Thunderbird mail window go to Tools =>Account Settings
- Click the button 'Add Account'
- Click Email Account and next
- Fill in your name and your full Gmail address
- then click Next
- Choose POP and type in pop.gmail.com for your incoming server and click Next
- Type your full Gmail email address as your incoming and outgoing email address, and then click Next
- Click Finish
- Click in the left pane the section that says “Server Settings”
- On the right side of the new pane choose SSL and type in 995 for your port, the other options are semi optional.
- Click Get mail, from Thunderbird.
It will take several days to get a complete backup, when it is finally caught up it will be really fast for future emails. You don’t have to leave the computer on just have Thunderbird open for a bit every time you have the computer on to allow the backup, and then close it when you get off.
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