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Then there's the issue of the email client - I'm using Linux. I heard Thunderbird is a mess.

Sylpheed is so old.

Claws email is supposed to be better - but everytime after downloading email, it will lock up for a long time, while it's going through the filters.

With 120 thousand emails, and need for GUI / modern email client, it seems my options are ather limited.

Thinking of using Eudora with Wine.

Any ideas?

I think my thunderbird downloaded 50k emails via imap just fine.

IMAP just download the index, not the content.

When you click on an email - then it'll download that email. Attachment is also probably you have to click it too.

That's just not feasible when you (turned out to have) nearly 150 K emails in your Gmail account.

OK I found out a feature in Thunderbird called "Offline Work" - it seems to cause it to download the whole emails.

Currently giving this a try, fingers crossed.