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7 Oct 2018, 02:24 PM | #1 |
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Join Date: Oct 2018
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Download only existing emails from gmail
I have a gmail account (under my organization) with ~600 emails. I keep only the essential emails and delete unnecessary ones daily. Now my organization is about to delete my account since I am leaving the organization. So I wanted to download all emails using thunderbird. But the problem I face is that thunderbird downloads all my emails that have been recieved so far including the emails that I have deleted. This comes to thousands of mails which I have no use of. How can I download only the emails that I have currently in my inbox excluding the ones I have deleted?
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7 Oct 2018, 03:59 PM | #2 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Manchester UK
Posts: 2,616
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Have you asked your IT department?
If you have a legitimate reason to have the archive, maybe they could assist you. |
7 Oct 2018, 07:12 PM | #3 | |
The "e" in e-mail
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Location: The Netherlands
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7 Oct 2018, 09:00 PM | #4 |
Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
Posts: 1,749
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An option might be to create a Google archive of your email, which can be downloaded in one or more zip files and then stored wherever you want. Not sure you can do that with a G Suite for business account--probably depends on the admin settings. I would be very careful that you aren't breaking the terms of your employment contract by doing this. Could come back to haunt you later.
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8 Oct 2018, 12:29 PM | #5 |
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Canada
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They have configured retention, I don't how that works in G Suite. I would have archived instead of deleted.
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