Archiving email on Gmail: "Mark Frauenfelder:


(Click on Thumbnail for enlargement) Last Friday, my PowerBook's hard drive experienced catastrophic failure and I lost everything.

Fortunately, I'd made a backup of my disk the night before using the best backup software for Macs, Super Duper, so I was able to recover everything but that day's changes to my hard drive. I asked people to resend certain emails, including Charles Platt, and he gave me this great tip: set up a rule in Mac's Mail.app to send a copy of every email that goes in and out over to a Gmail account. That way, you'll always have a searchable archive of all the email you send and receive.

I just set up the rule, and it seems to be working. Thanks, Charles!"

(Via Boing Boing.)