Gmvault v1.7-beta, Gmail backup simply: The initial version I wanted to build

I decided I'm leaving Gmail at some point in the future, here's why: Yesterday I wanted to comment on a video on Youtube. I clicked the 'reply' button, and a message came up, telling me that I needed to create a YouTube channel (or something) on order to be able to comment. So I quickly filled the mandatory fields and hit save. The next thing I saw was a message from Google telling me that my account had been locked because I am under 13 years of age. My Gmail account! My account where I have all my precious data. Because I had a typo in a field somewhere on YouTube! I understand that the US law requires these things, but why on earth would a typo on YouTube kill my personal Email account? Now I uploaded an image of my passport onto their servers to proof that I'm over 13. If that doesn't work out, they'll delete <i>all my data</i> in 29 days.<p>I can't explain how fed up I am about that. When I'm entering any date fields on my Gmail account, I'm always cautious. But this was YouTube. Enough rant.<p>Thanks for this tool! When my account comes back up, I'll use it to keep the data safe (I do have it in imap of course). And then at some point in the future I'll look for an alternative to Google.

In case anyone misses it, the advantage of this over other IMAP solutions is that it preserves information specific to Gmail - most importantly - labels aren't converted into IMAP folders (and therefore emails aren't duplicated needlessly).

This is a great opportunity to suggest new features/wishes for this tool. Please let me know what you would like to have to v2.0

The #1 reason I want Gmail backup is to be able to migrate in case something goes wrong with Gmail. Does Gmvault make this possible? I don't see any documentation about exporting from Gmvault to another IMAP server, or to a common format like Maildir or mbox so that I could run my own server.

As of circa 19:00 GMT, 2012-08-16, the Github repository is unavailable.