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FastMail has solved that for you: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058752414-Migrate-to-Fastmail-from-Gmail https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/art

FastMail has solved that for you: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058752414-Migrate-to-Fastmail-from-Gmail https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058752414-Mig... (click Import, then Gmail) When I moved many years ago, I migrated well over 50,000 emails with FastMail’s importer. Other than taking a few hours (all async), there’s nothing to it. Enjoy! (I’m unaffiliated, just a paying customer. If you care about customer support, privacy, or entrepreneurship, then FastMail - or another paid service - is a better fit than a free service can ever be)

SoftTalker 4y ago
WTF do you need to migrate 50,000 emails for. That's like my grandmother who used to save every letter she ever got. Never actually read them again, but god forbid you suggest throwing them out.
- AlotOfReading 4y ago
  Maybe you use email very differently? I find myself occasionally needing years-old emails to find info I've long-since forgotten and it's a lot easier to have all of it in one place.
- int_19h 4y ago
  Thing is, with abundant storage and good search, there's simply no reason to delete anything. Worst case, you'll never look at it again.
  - troydavis 4y ago
    This. There’s zero cost to keeping them - including when migrating hosts! It wasn’t all that intentional, I just didn’t need to delete them. Also, I wrote a lot of those emails (over 25+ years…). Sometimes it’s handy to refer to things I’ve written.
2muchcoffeeman 4y ago
How hard was it to move all your user accounts?
- kioleanu 4y ago
  For me it was a couple of hours of work, going though the password manager, logging in and changing the e-mail address in the profile. I haven't migrated all and probably never will - the accounts I don't care about can stay on gmail
- troydavis 4y ago
  My email address uses my own domain name, so I didn’t need to do that.

SoftTalker 4y ago

WTF do you need to migrate 50,000 emails for. That's like my grandmother who used to save every letter she ever got. Never actually read them again, but god forbid you suggest throwing them out.

AlotOfReading 4y ago
Maybe you use email very differently? I find myself occasionally needing years-old emails to find info I've long-since forgotten and it's a lot easier to have all of it in one place.
int_19h 4y ago
Thing is, with abundant storage and good search, there's simply no reason to delete anything. Worst case, you'll never look at it again.
- troydavis 4y ago
  This. There’s zero cost to keeping them - including when migrating hosts! It wasn’t all that intentional, I just didn’t need to delete them. Also, I wrote a lot of those emails (over 25+ years…). Sometimes it’s handy to refer to things I’ve written.

2muchcoffeeman 4y ago

How hard was it to move all your user accounts?

kioleanu 4y ago
For me it was a couple of hours of work, going though the password manager, logging in and changing the e-mail address in the profile. I haven't migrated all and probably never will - the accounts I don't care about can stay on gmail
troydavis 4y ago
My email address uses my own domain name, so I didn’t need to do that.