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 title: "Backing up gmail with Synology"
 date: 2022-03-13T18:49:10-04:00
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+I've used gmail since the beta launched touting a whopping 1GB of storage. I thought this was a massive leap in email technology at the time. I was lucky enough to get an invite fairly quickly. Not suprisingly, I have many years of emails, attachments, and photos. I certainly do not want to lose the content of many of these emails. Despite the redundancy of the data that Google secures, I still feel better retaining a copy of this data on my own physical machines.
 
- I've used gmail since the beta launched touting a whopping 1GB of storage. I thought this was a massive leap in email technology at the time. I was lucky enough to get an invite fairly quickly. Not suprisingly, I have many years of emails, attachments, and photos. I certainly do not want to lose the content of many of these emails. Despite the redundancy of the data that Google secures, I still feel better retaining a copy of this data on my own physical machines.
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 The thought of completely de-googling has crossed my mind on occassion. Convenience, coupled with my admiration for Google engineering, has prevented me from doing so thus far. Though, I may end up doing so at some point in the future.
 
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 Synology products are reasonably priced for what you get (essentially a cloud-in-a-box) and there is very little maintenance required. I've recently been in interested in syncing and snapshotting my personal data. I've setup [Synology's Cloud Sync](https://www.synology.com/en-ca/dsm/feature/cloud_sync) and keep copies of most of my cloud data.
 
- I've used tools such as [gmvault](http://www.gmvault.org) with success in the past. Setting this up on a cron seems like a viable option. However, I don't really need a lot of the features it offers and do not plan to restore this data to another account.
+I've used tools such as [gmvault](http://www.gmvault.org) with success in the past. Setting this up on a cron seems like a viable option. However, I don't really need a lot of the features it offers and do not plan to restore this data to another account.
 
 Synology's MailPlus seems to be a good candidate for backing up this data. By enabling POP3 fetching, it's possible to fetch all existing emails, as well as periodically fetch all new emails. If a disaster ever did occur, having these emails would be beneficial, as they are an extension of my memory bank.
 
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 ![image](mail-plus-incoming-mail.png)
 
- After fetching 19 years worth of emails, I tried searching for some emails. It only took a few seconds to search through ~50K emails, which is a relief if I ever did have to search for something important.
+After fetching 19 years worth of emails, I tried searching for some emails. It only took a few seconds to search through ~50K emails, which is a relief if I ever did have to search for something important.
 
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