Originally Posted By: Dignan

GMail, of all the services they have, is probably the easiest to get the data in and out. You can simply access it with a POP3 email client and download everything, or connect with IMAP and drag and drop all your email over, and you can export your contacts.

For that to actually be guaranteed useful though, you need to be getting your data out now on a regular basis.

If some calamity befell your favourite cloud service tomorrow, the service is likely to be completely swamped with other people also trying to download their complete dataset. Which why if I ever get round to moving my various domains to Google I'll make sure I have an automated sync in place before I commit wink
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