Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> writes: > * Paul Rudin <p...@rudin.co.uk> wrote: >> >> But you can pull all your email out of gmail via pop or imap, so >> it's not like you'll lose your emails. > > There are cases where people lost access to Gmail instantly because > of false accusations or idendity theft. You have to prepare *now* > for not losing yous emails if you don't synchronize often. > Sure, but that kind of thing could happen with pretty much any third party service.
>> At worst you'd lose your email address (although if you register a >> domain name then you can keep your email address and still use >> gmail for as long as it's there and some other provider later). > > You'll lose some more. At least you are going to lose your labels > AFAIR. > Labels map to mailboxes if you access your gmail via imap IIRC, so you don't really lose that information.
