How to Backup Your Gmail Account

It is important that you back up your gmail account. Your emails may contain confidential information such as bank statements, money details, etc. and should these land in the hands of some unscruplous hacker, it could prove dangerous. Your email account can also be hijacked by password cracking or some other means. So, it is better to delete confidential emails once you read them or back them up to your hard drive and encrypt them.

There are two ways to backup your gmail account:

- Forward your email to another account:

This will be depending on your other account’s stability. Go to Settings, then Forwarding and POP. Select Forward a copy, and enter an email address. Then Save Changes.

- Download all your email to your computer:

Enable POP for all mail and then follow Google’s guide to configuring your desktop email client such as Thunderbird or Outlook. Download all emails to hard disk and keep them safe.

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