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I’ve tried getting out of gmail a few times with various sync tools which all seemed to fail before completion. I’m curious if it’s a mailbox size issue, or perhaps scripts have matured since I last tried (2 years ago). Any idea how many emails you synced over?

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Close to 20.000 emails, ~4.5 GB in size. Tried using Google's data takeout first, but imapsync worked way better (while slower).

Thank you, that’s about the same size as my account. I struggled with Google’s takeout also. Going to make the move and feeling pretty good about it.

Did you do anything to migrate accounts signed up using the gmail?

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