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Did you upload all the messages from your client to fastmail or were they copied directly from Google to fastmail?
by mjochim 6y ago
Did you upload all the messages from your client to fastmail or were they copied directly from Google to fastmail?
- kioleanu 6y agoYou just connect your Google account in the Fastmail settings and they set everything automatically
- blunte 6y agoI wonder how long this will last until Google finds a way to prevent the migration out...
- black_knight 6y agoGDPR specifies the right to data-portability. In Europe services have to provide data in a machine readable, commonly used format for export.
- FeepingCreature 6y ago(For just this reason.) And that's why I think the GDPR is one of the best things the EU has ever done.
- mirthflat83 6y agoThank god for GDPR. Shame on me for thinking that this kind of regulation was dumb
- blunte 6y agoYou're excused, based on the useless and annoying cookie notice law.
- afandian 6y agoAll the better to get out while you still can!
- hedora 6y agoFrom what I can tell, it just uses standard protocols like IMAP (at least, it did when I moved from a non-gmail provider to it).
- ValentineC 6y agoGmail uses IMAP, but there are rate limits that seem to have been implemented recently: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518?hl=en The rate limits won't stop someone from eventually migrating out, but it might take a while.