Ask HN: Gmail Outage - how do you deal with it. Do you backup? 13 years ago
Raspberry Pi local homeserver as 1st stop for your e-mail (working as some type of backup), and then auto-forward incoming emails from the rPI-mailserver to your main gmail inbox?
That way you will get all emails even during gmail outage, aswell as having a backup of every single mail safely "at home" ... a quick thought.