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This is great news. Unfortunately downloading my Gmail content isn't listed as an option. I hope this isn't another case of Google App accounts not getting new features.

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We are rolling this feature out slowly, right now only about 1% of people have access to Takeout's of GMail. But we hope to increase it to 100%, including Google Apps accounts (if your administrator hasn't blocked it) over the next couple weeks.

I'm wondering how mbox format is going to work for 20+ gigabytes of email. Am I seriously going to be presented with a multi-gigabyte-sized text file?

I bet they give it to you compressed, which should have a pretty good ratio unless your mail is a bunch of binary attachments!

From the article (last line):

> The ability to download your Gmail messages will be rolled out over the next month.

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