NAME BaGoMa

BaGoMa backs-up and restores the contents of a GMail account. It can restore all the labels (folder structure), as well as the flags (seen/read, flagged) of a message. It differs from other similar solutions in a few important ways: It is Open Source Software. You can read the code to make sure your password and email contents remain private. Some backup solutions force you to use only ASCII characters in your labels. BaGoMa has no such restrictions on label names. Specifically, Foreign Characters and `/` (the label hierarchy delimiter) are allowed. BaGoMa is tuned to work specifically with GMail. Each message is only downloaded and saved once. Backup solutions that are designed to work with regular IMAP accounts will download each message multiple times (once per label) when used to back up a GMail account. That can significantly increase the bandwidth requirements and the amount of storage required for backup. Additionally, a faithful Restoration of your GMail account might not be possible from such a backup. BaGoMa requires your GMail account to be IMAP accessible. Check the Mail Settings and make sure "Enable IMAP" is selected under the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab. In the "Folder Size Limits" section on the same tab, make sure the following option is selected: "Do not limit the number of messages in an IMAP folder". BaGoMa never deletes any email from your account. A restore simply compares the contents of your local backup with the contents of your GMail account, and uploads any messages missing from your GMail account. It never deletes messages from GMail to make it match the local backup. Google sometimes imposes limits on how much data can be transfered from your account. If you run into such a limitation, just wait a few days and try the Backup Again. BaGoMa will pick up from where it left off. If the temporary loss of IMAP access is critical to you, think twice before using this script.