Hi Folks
Just tuning in here and would like to add something. I also seem to have suffered from a compromosed GMail account - this time from a Chinese address. All reported to Google. One of the things that bugs me is the number of sites that stupidly insist on sending user names and passwords over the open email. It's easy to forget they are there - which is a big danger if you accidentally use a password that may be for an important site. I've cleaned any of that out of my google emails but I'm still concerned that other private data has been seen.
My solution would be do download emails to my laptop from now on and delete them from the GMail server as I read them. Then I can arrange a local backup to a separate disk or whatever. That gives me back control of my information. Seems like I can't trust GMail anymore.
I checked out IMAP and POP on Google but it is not clear to me how they can be configured to download to my laptop AND delete from GMail at the same time. Secondly, GMail goes on about using a client such as Outlook Express or Thunderbird.. I thought the GMail was a client??
Eejit, with your set up for example, can you retrieve emails from GMail with Thunderbird and delete them from the GMail server at the same time?
I've used Google Backup but I don't see how I can open the files in the backup folder in my ordinary GMail screen so that I can search them for key works etc.
If anyone can make this clearer it might help me and mac above. And I sure feel for mac at this time.
