How to export your Gmail account (or any other email account) to a ZIP file

By William Entriken

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You can save all your emails to a single ZIP file using Mac, Windows, or Linux (30 minutes set up max).

Instructions for Mac & Windows

  1. Install VirtualBox
  2. Install Linux
  3. Continue as below

On Linux

  1. Run KDE
  2. Open Konqueror and navigate to imaps:example@gmail.com, with your username
  3. Open a connection to a network share running on your main operating system
  4. Copy over (2 hours for my 10,000 messages, 2GB)

Konqueror email screenshot

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