Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server

[Gregory Heytings]

>
> First of all, I want to learn how to do it, just for fun.
>

Okay, that was not what you initially said.  Some comments below, 
nonetheless.

>
> I will not recommend Google. Ever heard of data protection and data 
> confidentiality?
>

Your data is stored confidentially by Google, obviously.  Otherwise nobody 
would use their services.

>
> And then you are completely dependent. Your are nothing for a huge 
> company like Google. If they lose your complete e-mail database, they 
> will tell you that they are awfully sorry. If at all.
>

The likelihood that Google loses your email is far less than the 
likelihood that your server has a disk failure, gets hacked and rm -rf'd, 
is stolen, burns in a fire, and so forth.

>
> And no, running a mail server does not "consume a significant amount of 
> resources". Any 10-year-old laptop can easily cater for a small 
> business.
>

I meant human resources, obviously.

>
> Besides, paying $6/user/month is actually very expensive for some small 
> organisations. If you have 20 volunteers coming to the help in a small 
> public library once a month, that would be $1440 a year just for e-mail 
> services.
>

I'll say it again: Google is _free_ for nonprofits.  Free: $0/user/month, 
for as many users as you want.