[ARC5] [Vintage-Military-RADAR] A Cautionary Tale

[Peter Gottlieb]

I use IMAP with Thunderbird. I have everything I want to save stored
locally. I can pick up on my mobile device as well. There's nothing wrong
with the technology; it's up to the users to make appropriate use of it and
understand strengths and weaknesses.


Peter

On Nov 16, 2013, at 3:05 PM, "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:



This is a cautionary tale for anyone who uses webmail services (IMAP).
Examples are Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoomail, and many others.

With such services everything is stored 'in the cloud'... ie: on remote
disks rather than on your own local HD.

I had a very nasty experience yesterday and had to contemplate how to
recover. My email went completely dark.

Since my Address Book was also on the remote server, I lost ALL my email
addresses. Rebuilding it would be a nightmare.

Soo, if you don't back up everything from the web to your local disk, at
least copy your Address Book so that does not go Poof!!!

YMMV,

-John

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