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FastMail has solved that for you: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058752414-Mig... (click Import, then Gmail)

When I moved many years ago, I migrated well over 50,000 emails with FastMail’s importer. Other than taking a few hours (all async), there’s nothing to it. Enjoy!

(I’m unaffiliated, just a paying customer. If you care about customer support, privacy, or entrepreneurship, then FastMail - or another paid service - is a better fit than a free service can ever be)



How hard was it to move all your user accounts?


For me it was a couple of hours of work, going though the password manager, logging in and changing the e-mail address in the profile. I haven't migrated all and probably never will - the accounts I don't care about can stay on gmail


My email address uses my own domain name, so I didn’t need to do that.


WTF do you need to migrate 50,000 emails for.

That's like my grandmother who used to save every letter she ever got. Never actually read them again, but god forbid you suggest throwing them out.


Thing is, with abundant storage and good search, there's simply no reason to delete anything. Worst case, you'll never look at it again.


This. There’s zero cost to keeping them - including when migrating hosts! It wasn’t all that intentional, I just didn’t need to delete them.

Also, I wrote a lot of those emails (over 25+ years…). Sometimes it’s handy to refer to things I’ve written.


Maybe you use email very differently? I find myself occasionally needing years-old emails to find info I've long-since forgotten and it's a lot easier to have all of it in one place.




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