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GmailVault v1.0.5 released

GmailVault v1.0.5 is released. This is a minor release, fixing an update issue that some users faced, while attempting to update to v1.0.4. While GmailVault auto-updates itself, you can also do this manually by going to Settings > Auto updates

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GmailVault v1.0.4 released

GmailVault v1.0.4 is released. This is a minor release, focused on user convenience. Along with a couple of enhancements, it updates older MS-Windows installations of GmailVault to start in the background (on user login to the Windows account). While GmailVault

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GmailVault v1.0.3 released

GmailVault v1.0.3 is released with some important improvements. 1. On MS Windows, GmailVault auto-starts, when a user logs into Windows. Before this release, the browser would open up and display the GmailVault screen. This could get a little annoying, so

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Have access to your email, even when Gmail is down

Gmail suffered a major outage yesterday. The disruption caused inconvenience to millions of people across the world. Some of the headlines across the Web said: You’re Not Crazy: Gmail is Down Having problems with Gmail today? Don’t worry, it’s not

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Setting up GmailVault to back up your Gmail

We assume you have downloaded and installed GmailVault for your Operating System. And made the necessary settings in your Gmail account. For the impatient, the short story The Initial Settings screen allows you to configure the port GmailVault will run

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Installing Java on Mac OS X

GmailVault on OS X requires Oracle Java SE 6 (either the JDK or the JRE) to be present on your system. Java may not be installed automatically as part of the OS installation. Sometimes attempting to use a software that

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GmailVault for Mac OS X is now available

Quite a few of you have asked us for GmailVault on OS X. Here is the first port. This has been built and run only on Mac OS X 10.7.5, 64-bit. Please let us know about your experiences. Installing GmailVault

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Google outage has little impact on GmailVault users

Last week, Google’s services faced a brief, unprecedented outage. An outage lasting between one and five minutes only, but one that reportedly caused Internet traffic to drop by 40% and, possibly cause the company to lose about $500,000 in revenue.

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Installing Sun / Oracle Java on Linux

GmailVault for Linux requires Oracle Java SE 6 (either the JDK or the JRE) to be present on your system. If not already present, it’s a simple matter to install using your distribution’s package manager. Here we list instructions and

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GmailVault for Linux is now available

We said this was coming soon. Now it’s here! With v1.0.2, GmailVault is available on Linux. Currently it’s available for Ubuntu and has been tested on the following distributions: Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 Releases for other distributions will follow soon.

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