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I have ambivalent feelings about this. All in all, this is my stuff.
Agreed but it takes time, effort and money to make sure that you can take your stuff with you.
If any of the Google people are in here, I would consider adding a feature that delays access to your new archive by 48 hours. As great as export features are, I imagine it's the thing hackers who compromise an account will go straight for.
Unfortunately this requires you to be able to log in. I had an account (with the same name I use here) mysteriously stop being able to log in about 6 years ago. I lost all of my email, contacts, and calendars. I was never able to find out why the account was shut down, I'm guessing it was a ToS violation for something I did several months before I got banned (made 100+ gmail accounts with my invites, didn't use them…
I suspect it might have been a bit of a battle to push this through the top management. Anyhow, whoever did this - thank you.
Mbox, eh? Can anyone confirm that they've implemented this properly, particularly when it comes to escaping lines in message bodies that start with "From "? Failure to properly escape such lines was an infamous bug with Mail.app's mbox exporter[1]. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20070329131522/http://diveintomar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox
Sounds like Mail.app exported in mboxcl2, which breaks mail readers expecting the mboxo or the mboxrd formats.
I recommend people to use IMAP for extracting the mail, and to store it in something outside the mbox family.
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Agreed but it takes time, effort and money to make sure that you can take your stuff with you.
Yes, after all, you already could access your email via imap and do the backup by yourself.