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yes, very interested in the emails you can't import. I don't work for ProtonMail btw, just have quite bit of experience with smtp and email. Just curious from a tech perspective what kind of email you are having trouble importing.

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I had tons of issues with mailman added headers causing entire HTML messages to be interpreted as plain text, rendering their encoding tags visible. I think they fixed this. I was still a bit surprised that this was an issue 1+ years into the IMAP bridge.

Big plus is that if you complain about this to their support things actually seem to get fixed? That was kind of a shocker, I'd suggest sending them a note if you have issues. Though this particular IMAP transfer between accounts has worked between my other email accounts (exchange and some linux server long ago) and gmail since I first tried it so it's a little sad. But a smaller team I guess? But paying for it so...

Mixed feelings for sure.

I can't remember now, and there is a chance that it was the emails that were problematic. The behaviour of the import/export tool was just unforgivable though. It wouldn't handle the emails it couldn't import gracefully it would just hard fail.

I’m not exactly sure, I didn’t identify a clear pattern. One thing I noticed is that emails with French or German accents/umlauts in their subject line fail to be imported. But others don’t have that characteristic.

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