Google Users Locked Out After 15 Years' Use (2020)

Re:Google Users Locked Out After 15 Years' Use (2020) by TheChaplain on Sunday February 27, 2022 @05:44AM (#30487076)

I believe Google Takeout produces your emails in mbox-format.

Dead easy to re-import that to another provider using a pythonscript or something.

Just remember to set up a gmail forward to your new provider for any straggling emails.

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Re:Google Users Locked Out After 15 Years' Use (2020) by sufehmi on Sunday February 27, 2022 @06:27AM (#30487306)

This is interesting - will give this a try. Thanks !

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Re:Google Users Locked Out After 15 Years' Use (2020) by precurse on Monday February 28, 2022 @04:38PM (#30505488)

Google Takeout works really well, but you can also connect using IMAP or POP3 to download all your emails with an email client like Thunderbird.

Then, if you've setup a new email account with another provider, you can connect using IMAP and copy your emails that way.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-gmail

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Re:Google Users Locked Out After 15 Years' Use (2020) by sufehmi on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:29PM (#30506679)

POP3 always fail when you have so much emails: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30485039

IMAP only download the index - everytime you click on an email, it'll then download it. When you have 150K emails, then you need to click on all that emails 150K times.

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