After the rumors about locked GMail accounts, decided to backup my important emails. The article How to back up your Gmail on Linux in four easy steps helped me a lot. My setting in ~/.getmail/getmail.gmail are (IMAP, Maildir):
[retriever]
type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
server = imap.gmail.com
username = my_name
password = my_secret
mailboxes = (”personal”,”important”)
[destination]
type = Maildir
path = ~/gmail-archive/
[options]
verbose = 2
message_log = ~/.getmail/gmail.log
The backup itself was done via:
$ getmail -r ~/.getmail/getmail.gmail