Email Backup Wizard

Choose a mail account or desktop app and download a backup archive.

Mailbox

Enable IMAP in Gmail settings. With 2-Step Verification, create an app password. The password is used for this download only and is not stored.

Email addressApp passwordFolderAlso back up other folders. Junk, trash, and All Mail are skipped. Each download keeps up to 500 of the newest messages, or 40 MB.