Accessing your e-mail in a web browser is all the rage, but rage is all you’ll be feeling when your net access goes down and you don’t have a local backup of your messages. Here are some tips for backing up your inbox. It requires a bit of work to set up, but once you do, you’ll be able to enjoy the goodness of Gmail’s web interface worry-free.

This is something I’ve been meaning to do for ages but I don’t want all my thousands of messages, only some of them downloaded to the desktop. I’ve yet to work out if that is possible.

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With Gmail’s easy-to-use Mail Fetcher feature and POP3 access, you can easily import all of your old emails to your new address. Although I personally think it is a lot easier to IMAP them all into Thunderbird and then re-upload them all into the new email address.

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The extremely useful MyBlogLog, which I find invaluable for keeping track of my blog visitors, as well as my most popular blog links, has now brought out a HTML interactive email signature which you can use to promote yourself in your emails.

But it seems to only work in Outlook and Thunderbird. Attempts to install it into Gmail failed.

This is despite the fact that the Better Gmail extension, brought out by Lifehacker, allows you to insert a HTML signature into your Gmail emails. But it seems that the MyBlogLog signature is too long as the Better Gmail extension only allows HTML signatures of up to 1000 characters. Attempts to cut away all the unnecessary clutter didn’t do it any good - the sig is still too long for Gmail.

This signature looks great but it’s not going to tear me away from Gmail.

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