Sunday, June 30, 2024

Google Gmail annoyances

Google has made it so cumbersome to export your emails, it is absolutely ridiculous!

The web interface (i.e. mail.google.com) has no export feature at all! I believe it used to have it in the past.

You have to go the takeout.google.com website for export! Very primitive, cumbersome, and annoying! And although, I am logged into my Google account via Google Chrome browser, I have to provide my passport again to access this feature! Ridiculous!

The default setting is all (current and past) emails, trash and spam! The file was over 3 GB large! Absolute ridiculous!!!!

Apparently, there is no e.g. Python API to do this job programmatically! Incredible!

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