Have Google mail grab it off his server.

Google's stuff can go and get everything and re-process it... just like its incoming if you want.

That way its *ALL* available in Google Mail.

to have ultimate privacy?

Remember, unless e-mail messages are encrypted with GPG/PGP/WTFever its plain text and readable.

Considering the petabytes of e-mail Google has to "index" is *YOURS* that important?

These cries of privacy invasion... ok, tell me the last time you had a secure conversation on the internet via forums or the like?

How much of your mail is spam? How much of you e-mail is truly highly private? Are you *THAT* important? Come on, you use a cell phone and don;t complain that you can be triangulated at any time, or eavesdropped on or the fact that all of your internet traffic is probably being scanned in one way or another for various purposes or what about the ISP you are using doing traffic shaping because you use too much of a specific kind of traffic...

There are FAR FAR FAR worse invasion of privacy things that you have just accepted and let happen without care (maybe not without care, but what you don't know *CAN and DOES* hurt you)... But I guess bike-shedding is your style on this type of thing.

Give me a break.