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while gmail may be by far the most
popular email client
there are quite a few alternatives like
outlook and mailbird that can give
google's offering strong competition
both in terms of smart email management
and flexibility
so if you have decided to finally switch
your loyalty to other email clients
you may want to save a backup of your
entire gmail for reference
even if you don't want to look beyond
google's email client
having a backup of all of your gmail
account could be helpful from a security
perspective
open a web browser on your computer and
head over to myaccount.google.com
after that make sure to sign into your
google account
now click on manage your data and
personalization option located under
privacy and personalization
next scroll down and click on download
your data
next up google takeout page will appear
on this page you should see a long list
of google services from which you can
download the preferred data
by default all the options have been
selected
since we want to backup only emails
click on deselect all
up next scroll down to find mail option
and then check the box for it
depending on your needs you can select
to export all the emails or choose to
export only specific
emails by default all mail data is
included
if you want to export only specific data
click on all mail data included
include all messages in mail after that
choose the specific data and click on ok
now click on the next step button
on the next page you have the option to
export a copy of the content in your
google account to back it up
additionally there is also an option to
use the backup with a service outside of
google allows you to choose the file
type frequency
and destination as well for instance
make it send the download link via email
or add the files to google drive
dropbox onedrive or box besides
you can even set it to export all the
files at once or choose to export files
every two months for one year
there are two file types to choose from
zip and tgz
select zip as it's the most preferred
option
bear in mind the exports larger than 2gb
will be split into multiple files
after you have selected the file type
and destination
click on create export that's pretty
much it
now wait for a few hours or days for the
backup of your emails to arrive
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