I still have the archives for years before gmail, but probably 1/3 of those are in a proprietary format long since not supported that ran on a proprietary OS th

I still have the archives for years before gmail, but probably 1/3 of those are in a proprietary format long since not supported that ran on a proprietary OS that ran on proprietary hardware. So that sucks because those old emails are almost certainly more interesting than the current pile of madness.