You know,
I had thought about switching to the IMAP protocol due to being able to switch to any email client I wanted to without having to constantly IMPORT and EXPORT my data.
That's really the only PITA part, (pardon my expression) about POP.
It just seems like life would be A LOT less stressful without having to worry about if I backed my email up
or I decide to try a new email client and I don't have to piece together archive folders from one client to another etc.
But OTOH, I do enjoy that my data is PRIVATE and that my mail provider can't pull a *YAHOO MAIL * and be like one day " Eh, you don't need those emails in your archive folder from 2016 / 2017. * POOF DELETED* without even asking the user if its okay.
I know that, a hosted email provider WON'T DO THAT to someone, since we pay for the product to keep our valuable emails stored for us.
Then again, look at what happened to poor Rackspace last year. Their Exchange server got hacked and had to pay ransom to get peoples data back and people still lost a lot of their emails that they had in the cloud.
Do ya'll think its worth it?
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On Friday 07 June 2024 12:42:50 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
On Friday 07 June 2024 21.37:30 CHRIS M via tde-users wrote: (...)
people still lost a lot of their emails that they had in the cloud.
Do ya'll think its worth it?
I don't trust the cloud. In my backups I trust (although this trust sometimes is misplaced...)
Only two words to answer that and similar questions: COLD STORAGE.
I don't trust anything except my own hard drives. Keep everything on them, and make backups of your most important and valuable files. If you want to backup on the cloud, or if you trust your email provider, that's okay, but never trust anybody else with your data.
If you don't own it, then it's not yours. And nowadays, even when you do "own" it (because you paid for it), you might find out that, due to some fine print that you never bothered to read, you don't really, legally own it.
So again, cold storage, hard drives you own, which preferably are kept offline: that's where I put my trust.
Bill
William Morder via tde-users wrote:
I don't trust anything except my own hard drives. Keep everything on them, and make backups of your most important and valuable files. If you want to backup on the cloud, or if you trust your email provider, that's okay, but never trust anybody else with your data.
When reading your post, I was thinking, may be it is a good idea to do the imapsync once a month or once a week to a local server and back it up then.
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