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Preliminary tests show that this archiving/backup scheme works--at least 
using my setup. I do have access to broadband, so sending 20 MB 
attachments is not unreasonable. My ISP's smtp server doesn't balk at the 
size of the attachments, though I'm guessing there are ISP's that would. 
Another concern I had was that gmail might flag my account for suspiscious 
activity if too many large attachments were sent to it. But testing so far 
indicates this is not happening. Here's a description of the testing 
scenario.

I ran my scripts on a ca. 95 MB directory I wanted to archive/backup using 
the gmail scheme. Last night, I sent off one e-mail with 20 MB attachment 
to my gmail account and it went through just fine. This morning I sent off 
another 4 e-mails to my gmail account with the remaining 20 MB (or a 
little less than 20 MB in the case of one) attachments. I sent all these 
within the space of about a half hour. They all arrived fine and promptly. 
I don't know if this makes any difference, but the address in the "from" 
field of those e-mails with the attachments did not contain my gmail 
address, but rather another of the addresses I use.

Those are the results so far, in case it's of interest to anyone.

James