Looking for best practices for home data security for an exclusively Mac household. [more inside]
posted by Admiral Haddock on Nov 20, 2012 - 4 answers

Will I regret aggressively using Gmail’s Archive function? [more inside]
posted by Tehhund on Oct 1, 2012 - 29 answers

About a year ago, I accidentally archived a ton of old emails in my Gmail account, without putting any labels on any of them. (I thought I knew how archiving worked at the time, but obviously I was wrong) [more inside]
posted by hasna on Mar 12, 2009 - 10 answers

How can I make an archive of my SMS messages? In this era of network-accessible, searchable, archived, free, multi-gigabyte email storage, I'm a little miffed that my SMS storage is limited to arbitrary limit of 50 message on my phone. Lots of important things come in via SMS, and I hate how they just disappear. I get Twitters from friends, nice notes from my girlfriend, voice mail transcriptions from CallWave, business information via GOOG-411's text service... and so on. I'd like for the solution to cost as little as possible. I don't have an unlimited txt plan (I get a few hundred per month) so simply forwarding every SMS I receive and CCing every SMS I send to an email address isn't a very appealing solution as it really raises my SMS costs and takes effort. [more inside]
posted by k7lim on Nov 26, 2007 - 9 answers

I've fallen far behind in archiving my gmail Inbox and would like to clear it out. How can I archive every single message (more than 4,000) that's in there now? [more inside]
posted by davebug on Apr 20, 2006 - 13 answers

GmailFilter: I am having a hard time keeping my gmail inbox down to manageable numbers. I want to do something very specific. Is it possible to set gmail to automatically archive all read messages? That way my inbox stays clear and I don't have to remember to constantly click the archive button after reading a message.
posted by billtron on Apr 3, 2006 - 5 answers

How can I backup my existing Gmail inbox locally, so I can search and access my messages offline? [more inside]
posted by Thoth on Sep 24, 2005 - 6 answers

How can I save a Gmail email to my hard drive? [more inside]
posted by DakotaPaul on Feb 24, 2005 - 8 answers