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Because _it is_ specific to Gmail. It's using OAuth and presumable API access.

IMAP is much harder, and much slower, and is bound by Google's bandwidth limits.




Doing a mbox export with Google Takeout from gmail is pretty fast.


What? You have to schedule it, they literally wait 3 days before they start it, and then it can take most of a day to get it ready for download. It is not fast.


I've never had to wait that long. I usually can download within 20 minutes and it's 15 GB of data.


I've never had that experience. You don't need to schedule anything, and it takes maybe part of an hour to be ready to download?

Maybe there have been times when it was broken or under high demand though?




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