Backup emails with Google Docs Feb27 '07
I have been toying with the idea of automatically forwarding all incoming email to my Google Docs & Spreadsheets account. This way I'd have a complete backup for all emails - specifically for larger emails with attachments, since they take up a lot of space on the email server.
Google Docs provides users with a unique email address, in which you can send documents directly to:
Normally, I'd manually forward the emails to Google Docs, but why do that when it can be done automatically? It would save me a step.
This may be a good idea for all emails, or perhaps just for the emails with attachments.
In Gmail, you can do this by creating a Filter for any emails that have attachments. Right away, those get forwarded to another email address - in this case, my Google Docs email address:
The only problem with this is Google Docs limits attachments to 500 KB, which is not very much. For heavy Word documents, with lots of screenshots, 500 KB is exceeded rather quickly.
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