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You can use Thunderbird as your regular email client, and switch between it and the web interface. To make sure the messages are available while you're offline, head to 'File | Offline | Download/sync now'.

You can fire up Thunderbird on a regular schedule and let it grab your new messages. Depending on the size of your account (scroll down to the bottom of your Gmail account to find out how large it is), fetching all the emails might take some time, from a couple of hours to a couple of days. Once set up, Thunderbird will authenticate your Gmail account and grab all your emails – received and sent. Launch the client, head over to 'Tools | Account Settings' and select 'Add mail account' from the dropdown list on the left. If you already use Thunderbird to manage another account, you can add your Gmail to your setup. Accept the settings by clicking the 'Create account' button. When you click 'Continue', Thunderbird will fetch settings to let you send and receive email via Gmail. Give it your name, your Gmail username (including com') and password. When you launch it for the first time, Thunderbird will prompt you for your account information. Head to Thunderbird's website, where you can grab and install the latest version for your platform. Make sure POP is disabled and IMAP access is enabled. Click the 'Options' icon, followed by 'Mail settings', then head to the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab. Log into your Gmail account to enable IMAP access. Most popular email clients support the IMAP protocol, but the advantage of Thunderbird (besides being free) is that it offers a consistent environment across Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, so you should be able to reproduce these steps no matter which OS you use. IMAP (internet message application protocol) is the most popular protocol for retrieving emails. The best way to create a local backup of your emails is to use an offline IMAP client like Mozilla Thunderbird. It offers over 7GB of storage capacity, and people used it as an online storage repository to store their files long before purpose-built storage on the cloud became affordable.

Gmail is the most popular free, web-based email service.