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You downloaded Google Takeout. The file is 6 GB. You followed a guide, set up Thunderbird, installed an add-on, configured IMAP, and dragged 40,000 emails toward Gmail. Three hours later: 2,300 emails synced. The rest are gone. Thunderbird hit Gmail’s IMAP upload cap and dropped the connection without warning.<\/p>\n

If that’s where you are, this page is for you. If you haven’t tried yet, read this before you do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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