@floreana awesome. I’m planning on doing this sometime in 2026. I’m seeing that there are more resources available for folks moving out of Google and Apple products…

@floreana I would also recommend Thunderbird, because I think the issue you reported about mail in the exported mbox file being all mixed together may be due more to deliberate foul up at Gmail's end, not Thunderbird's.

Another option: You can set up your Gmail account in Thunderbird, then drag and drop email from it into another email account/folder set up, while preserving order, full email, read/unread status.

I do all my email (including Gmail) via Thunderbird, no exporting required.

@floreana Almost any mail reader will be able to read it. Search the app store.

@floreana I quit google like 5 years ago and till this date I didn't find any good software to open the archive properly 😅 I tried Thunderbird and it opened but I found out that all emails are mixed together (incoming & outgoing) so it's kinda chaotic.

@floreana Mutt will open mbox files in the command line.

@floreana I've used Thunderbird in the past for mbox files. Any email client should be able to open it.

@floreana I think Thunderbird can open it

@floreana Maybe your new email service/client of choice has an import function that supports .mbox? Thanks for this tip - going to do that myself. If I find a way I'll let you know...