This tutorial contains detailed instructions to teach you how to backup GMAIL emails locally. Whether you are trying it for security or other reasons, you can try it out.
Gmail is a free email service provided by Google. There are many users who use Gmail as their email service of choice. All of the email you send and receive through Gmail is securely stored on Google's cloud servers. However, if your account is compromised or inaccessible for any reason, you could lose access to all of your email and possibly even important personal and business conversations you've made. You could also lose your valuable contacts and their email addresses as a result.
That's why a lot of people wonder if they can keep a copy of all the email they've received and sent through Gmail so far locally on their computer, device, or hard drive. Fortunately, backing up Gmail to a local hard drive is very easy. Keep reading and we will introduce two ways to backup Gmail emails locally.
Next we have provided you two ways to implement Gmail local backup. One is to use Google's own Takeout function, and the other is to use professional email backup software. Let's see how to do it respectively.
We will use Google Takeout to get a copy of all your emails from Gmail. It doesn't matter what device you're using, as long as you have access to a web browser. Just follow the steps below to get started.
You can also use professional email backup software to help you back up your Gmail emails to local. AOMEI Backupper's "Outlook Backup" feature can help backup Outlook desktop side. Outlook desktop supports emails including Microsoft 365, Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Exchange. So you can then use AOMEI Backupper to backup these emails.
You can start by seeing how to backup Gmail emails to hard drive locally using AOMEI Backupper. This software has a 30-day free trial period, during which you can try out its features before making a decision. First download and install it on your computer, if you are a Server user, you can try AOMEI Backupper Server.
When you add email accounts of third party email service providers like Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo to Outlook, you need to modify some settings on their corresponding web side. Here are the steps on how to modify Gmail IMAP when you add Gmail to desktop side of Outlook.
Go to https://mail.google.com.
Select Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
Under IMAP Access, make sure Enable IMAP is selected.
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This article provides you two effective ways to help you backup Gmail emails locally. With the backup, you don't need to worry about the problem of data loss due to various reasons. By comparison, AOMEI Backupper is more comprehensive and can provide different levels of security for your computer. Besides email backup, it also has features such as system backup and disk backup. Come and try it out!