offlineimap sync

[Tim D]

Hello,

 > Why do they 'get deleted' on the server?  Do you delete them?  Isn't the
 > philosophy of Gmail to never delete e-mail, but archive it and make it
 > searchable?  Offlineimap syncs the server and a local directory, so that
 > the e-mail gets deleted locally is a feature, not a bug.

I am talking about the case in which emails might get deleted due to
Google's fault. The probability of this happening is low, but then
there's a point we make backups.