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by bwillard 4574 days ago
We are rolling this feature out slowly, right now only about 1% of people have access to Takeout's of GMail. But we hope to increase it to 100%, including Google Apps accounts (if your administrator hasn't blocked it) over the next couple weeks.
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I'm wondering how mbox format is going to work for 20+ gigabytes of email. Am I seriously going to be presented with a multi-gigabyte-sized text file?
I bet they give it to you compressed, which should have a pretty good ratio unless your mail is a bunch of binary attachments!