If you have a PC Wondershare has a product called MobileGo. It's free functionality is limited but it does have a simple file structure navigation portion included in free, it's very useful. You hook the FTVS to your PC using the power cable and it becomes a jump drive. Source: about 3 years ago

I use GMvault for doing this and I'm quite happy with it. Unfortunately, it's not actively maintained anymore and out of the box, it doesn't work properly thanks to some annoying changes that Google has made to Oauth, but fortunately, there's plenty of documentation on GitHub for how to fix it. I have GMvault set up to run nightly using a cron job on my NAS. Source: about 1 year ago

With gmvault you can download and sync. http://gmvault.org/ it saves in .eml format, I assume you could use a locally installed web mailer for accessing the emails? Source: about 1 year ago

I used this until I didn't need it any more, worked perfectly for a long time: http://gmvault.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

I recommend to look in gmvault http://gmvault.org/ . Source: about 2 years ago

It's a good idea to use something like gmvault [0] to ensure you have regular downloads of your mail corpus locally. [0] http://gmvault.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago