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Authored by: mudtown on Jul 08, '05 01:40:19PM
I attempted to use the batch redirect method described here to move several thousand messages from a university account to GMail, with disastrous results.

Mail.app successfully sent all the messages I wanted to move, but GMail only accepted the first 525 messages, after which all messages were returned to the original senders, which, because I was redirecting mail, were the actual original senders! Thus, hundreds of people I e-mailed in 2001 received as many as 400 "Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours" messages that were bounced from GMail.

I don't know whether GMail thought I was getting spammed and so shut out all incoming messages after a certain number, or if there is a daily quota of sorts. Whatever the reason, be careful with this technique!

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