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How does anyone get upset when something they're not paying for stops working?

You definitely pay for gmail. Paraphrasing Heinlein, you pay for it other than with money.

I'm okay with that. It hasn't cost me anything I valued.

I swear people will find a way to feel entitled to just about anything.

As a google apps admin for my work I backup the entire domain's emails - there are a bunch of companies offering this as a service these days.

As a personal google mail user I use offlineimap to synchronise with a local maildir for both redundancy and reading my emails.

Mine is backed up to several copies of Apple Mail