Exporting Bulk Email

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askelon

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#310722 16-Nov-2023 13:58

I have a client with 180GB of gmail emails (yes 180Gb in total). I need to be able to export these to either an mbox or PST. PST is pretty much out of the question. I know I could try using Google Takeout but Im not sure if they would need 180+GB free to do this - ideally I'd like it to go to my onedrive. Other option is an email client of some sort - Im thinking Thunderbird? I know it'll do mbox by default and hopefully be a pretty standard version of it. Will it be painful downloading 180+GB? Yes it will....

Anyone have any recommendations before I attempt this?

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#3160150 16-Nov-2023 14:00

What is your client trying to achieve?

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#3160151 16-Nov-2023 14:02

It needs to be all uploaded to a particular law database which takes either pst or mbox.

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#3160152 16-Nov-2023 14:03

I'm guessing there are a fairly large number of big attachments,?? - getting to 180GB with plain text would be seriously impressive,

See if there is a way to sort and export the largest offenders as a separate exercise, before dealing with the large number of regular emails,

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#3160205 16-Nov-2023 16:01

Ive had another chat with them about it all after finding out they now have 4+ mailboxes pushing 200GB each and its been decided I get the fun job of setting up a label for a bunch of keywords and hopefully exporting that. Still better than how it was going to go!

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#3160231 16-Nov-2023 17:44

Setting up a filter or filters to include messages with the specified keywords to retroactively apply a label or labels and using Google Takeout to select just those labels to include in the archive would seem to be the easiest option.

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#3160272 16-Nov-2023 20:26

@askelon: ... - ideally I'd like it to go to my onedrive. ...

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#3160464 17-Nov-2023 10:48

Ive got it all sorted now thanks. I ended up making a bunch of search terms, labelling the results and once the searching part is over I'll (hopefully!) export the labels with takeout.