How can I Backup Gmail Accounts?

You can download third-party apps like Apple mail, Thunderbird or Outlook for mac, and link your accounts with these apps. Please note that your accounts should be IMAP enabled, then only your email will be downloaded automatically.

You can also go for another third party app that is capable of backing up Gmail directly, Mail Backup X (http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/Mail-Backup-X.shtml)

Have a look. I hope this helps.

What email clients are you using? I'm not sure where you are running out of space. Is it on your computers or is gmail running out of space on it's server [ your allocation is used up ]?

Seems like the default allocation is 15g. I'd think you computer would handle this but I do not know. Perhaps an iDevice would not.

Going to this site will tell you how space you are using with Google. You could buy more space.

https://www.google.com/settings/storage

"Gmail: Messages people send to you will be returned to them." Since your getting an error message this indicates the size limit is on your machine. What email client are you using?

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6374270?hl=en

Here is some info on limits

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/131656/mac-mail-limits-messages-and-mai lbox-size

You might want to consider asking over in Google land.

This might be more work than you want, but...

1) do a clone of your harddrive. Read the link the prior poster gave.

2) most email clients let you export your email.

3) You could login to your account from a web browser.

4) Hire a consultant.

R

Read this article : Mail for Mac: Import or export mailboxes

http://www.macworld.com/article/1160945/business/backup-cloud.html

There's Backup Gmail app. on the App Store for $9 something. New versions works well

Check it out. Save the years old stuff to an external drive so you keep enough free space on your drive

Paul