Ask HN: Importing email from Gmail to Fastmail
Hello,<p>I&#x27;m currently migrating my email account to Fastmail from Gmail and I hit an interesting problem. Fastmail seems to have a great import tool to migrate your emails but being a privacy-conscious person I started to wonder if it was possible for an app-password from Gmail (I have two-step verification enabled) to limit its access to IMAP. I don&#x27;t currently distrust Fastmail but I would be feeling better if I knew they couldn&#x27;t mess with my Account Settings on Google (or gather my data from other services). From what I could gather online there aren&#x27;t granular permissions nor official information pointing to any IMAP-only app-password.<p>Given the stated problem I started to look for other solutions like imapsync but I currently have around 15GB of emails and it seems Google throttles downloads and uploads so it would take around 7 days, at least, to import all my email to Fastmail (and having to download them to a machine which would then upload to their servers).<p>Anyone here had a similar problem? How did you approach it?