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Did you ever try to contact someone at Google for higher quota? (There's a form linked from the developer site.) I'm not surprised the default quotas were low,

• saryant 12y ago
  Our primary issue isn't the quota limits, it's the actual speed of the API. The best we were able to achieve with the Gmail API was 3000 messages/minute whereas IMAP easily lets us get 20k messages/minute.
  • esquid2 12y ago
    Are you limiting yourself to one thread or something? If you're not getting limited by quota then why not use batching + more threads until you do get to those limits?
    • saryant 12y ago
      We are getting limited by the quota. As the documentation says, quotas can be temporarily exceeded and in our tests we could fetch about 3000 messages in those bursts. After that, we would be 403'd for one to two minutes before requests would succeed again with quotas strictly enforced for an unknown amount of time past that.