Love Web Mail? But What About…
So… did you suffer from last week’s Gmail outage? Probably. Almost of all my Twitter friends were throwing their hands up over inaccessible emails. Personally, I didn’t experience a big melt down as I could access my email, which is on Google Apps. Only disruption is some bouncing emails.
What I’m most interested to ask you my friends is not about Gmail but your business setup. What about backing up your emails? Do you do it? No? Why not?
One of the easiest ways to backup a web mail is to use a desktop email client like Thunderbird, log in to download your emails. On Gmail or Google Apps, go to Settings >> Forwarding and POP/IMAP, enable POP, tell it to keep emails in your inbox. Then configure your email client.
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If Mozilla products got along with my computer that would be lovely, but I lost thousands of emails when Thunderbird self destructed on my system last year.
I’ll stick with Gmail. One hour of outage with all the time I’ve used it is way better odds than a desktop client.
Of course, other people’s mileage may vary. That’s just the solution that works for me.
@jennydecki: Welcome! Good to see you here. You don’t have to use Thunderbird. I always recommend a backup no matter what you use.
If you use a desktop client, you should backup your email folder – preferably to an external drive or an external server outside of your home – the best, do both.
If you use web mail – back up that as well. Not saying you should give up web mail. Just that it is prudent to keep a backup.
But I do agree with you, I would rather have Gmail bomb and their team of developers fix it for me than me running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to fix it myself. That’s why I still use Gmail AND Google Apps. The only difference it – I will always have a copy of my data. 😉