Emails popped off Gmail with SeaMonkey Mail

I have wanted to do this for years. My main Gmail account had about 27,000 emails, from 2013. I don't know what the risk is with keeping my emails online, but I feel much better having removed them.

That's a lot of emails. I recall sending identity documents via email attachment, such as my driver's licence. If anyone managed to get into my account, they would find enough for identity theft.

I posted that EasyOS 7.0.27 has setup SeaMonkey Mail module with external mail storage, see earlier post, with details how secure this setup is:

• SeaMonkey run non-root, setup-client simplified — October 31, 2025

Setup was pretty straightforward. First, I logged into gmail.com and in the Settings:

Then logged-out and started SM Mail. Setup the POP server for downloading mail:

Then for SMTP server, for sending mail:

The "OAuth2" authorization resulted in a notification popping up on my phone, asking if that is me.

At first I was a bit concerned, as SM Mail doesn't have a choice of downloading a certain number of emails, just all of them. But no, there is a default size limit, and SM automatically downloaded about 400 to 1,000 emails then stopped.

Download started from the oldest, in 2013, and it was interesting to watch the topics -- my life back then.

One thing I noticed; date is displayed in American format MM/DD/YYYY, even though I had chosen British English (the British and Australians do it as DD/MM/YYYY).  

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