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Re:The Sign Up with Google Mistake You Can't Fix by tonyarkles on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @01:56PM (#11205082)
Having worked on an email client app before, that would definitely be effective. Retrieving and processing a decade worth of email is a huge pain in the ass that takes quite a long time (just retrieving the message bodies from GMail took at least an hour).
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Re:The Sign Up with Google Mistake You Can't Fix by mborch on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @02:11PM (#11205215)
I did after about 18 minutes which did limit the import to just the most recent emails. Phew!
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Re:The Sign Up with Google Mistake You Can't Fix by fixermark on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @02:29PM (#11205370)
I suspect Fleep is actually just importing the most recent emails, as that's what the flow said it wanted the permission for.
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Re:The Sign Up with Google Mistake You Can't Fix by mborch on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @05:50PM (#11206770)
You're right and actually the CEO reached out and clarified this. I have updated my post to try and better reflect the problem.
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