[Imaplib2-devel] Gmail: downloading the rest of the mails

[Tim Gray]

On Oct 10, 2011 at 09:42 PM +0700, Jean Jordaan wrote:
>Interestingly this doesn't say anything about throttling:
>  http://www.dataliberation.org/google/gmail

I might have been thinking of POP.  FWIW, I had switched from 
downloading via IMAP to POP for unrelated reasons and forgot.  Google 
does limit POP downloads by making messages available in 'batches'.  Not 
sure if they do the same with IMAP.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13291