{"id":13994,"date":"2026-08-04T10:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/?p=13994"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:27:50","slug":"export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Export Google Workspace to MBOX Format: Complete Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-top\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;13994&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;top&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;Rate this post&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;5\\\/5 - (1 vote)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;How to Export Google Workspace to MBOX Format: Complete Guide&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;142.5&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 142.5px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                \n\n<div class=\"kksr-legend\" style=\"font-size: 19.2px;\">\n            5\/5 - (1 vote)    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"migrate-btn-n my-4\">\n<p>Somewhere in almost every IT department&#8217;s to-do list sits a task that sounds simple and rarely is: export Google Workspace to MBOX. Maybe it&#8217;s a compliance officer building a legal hold. Maybe it&#8217;s an admin offboarding a department before a platform switch. Or it&#8217;s just someone who wants a mailbox they can open without depending on Google&#8217;s servers being up.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, to export Google Workspace emails to MBOX format, use Google Takeout for personal accounts or individual downloads, Google Vault for admin compliance exports, or a <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/g-suite-backup\/\" target=\"blank\">Cigati Google Workspace Backup Tool<\/a><\/b> for bulk email backups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center mac-win-tab mt-3 mb-5\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">\n<ul id=\"myTab\" class=\"nav nav-tabs justify-content-center\" role=\"tablist\">\n<li class=\"nav-item\" role=\"presentation\"><button id=\"home-tab\" class=\"nav-link bg-transparent px-4 active\" role=\"tab\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"tab\" data-target=\"#home\" aria-controls=\"home\" aria-selected=\"true\"><i class=\"icon-windows\"><\/i> Windows<\/button><\/li>\n<li class=\"nav-item\" role=\"presentation\"><button 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href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#What_Is_MBOX_and_Why_Does_Google_Use_It\" >What Is MBOX and Why Does Google Use It?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#What_Actually_Comes_Across_in_an_Export_Google_Workspace_to_MBOX\" >What Actually Comes Across in an Export Google Workspace to MBOX?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#Manual_Two_Ways_to_Export_Google_Workspace_Emails_to_MBOX\" >Manual Two Ways to Export Google Workspace Emails to MBOX<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#Limitations_of_the_Google_Vault_Method\" >Limitations of the Google Vault Method<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#The_Advanced_Route_Export_Google_Workspace_to_MBOX\" >The Advanced Route: Export Google Workspace to MBOX<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#What_it_adds_on_top_of_the_native_options\" >What it adds on top of the native options:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#Where_Backup_G_Suite_Mailbox_to_MBOX_Commonly_Go_Wrong\" >Where Backup G Suite Mailbox to MBOX Commonly Go Wrong<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#Verifying_the_Export_Actually_Worked_Export_G_Suite_Emails_to_MBOX\" >Verifying the Export Actually Worked: Export G Suite Emails to MBOX<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#Wrapping_Up\" >Wrapping Up<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#Frequently_Asked_Questions\" >Frequently Asked Questions<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Is_MBOX_and_Why_Does_Google_Use_It\"><\/span>What Is MBOX and Why Does Google Use It?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>MBOX is a plain-text mailbox format that stores every message in a folder as one continuous file, each email separated by a &#8220;<b>From<\/b>&#8221; line marking where the next message starts. It&#8217;s been around since the early days of Unix mail systems, which is exactly why it&#8217;s still the lowest common denominator most email clients agree on.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderbird reads it natively. Apple Mail imports it directly. Most forensic and eDiscovery tools expect it. That universality is precisely why Google standardized on MBOX as its default export format for Gmail data, both through the consumer-facing Takeout tool and through Google Vault for Workspace admins.<\/p>\n<p>The tradeoff is that MBOX wasn&#8217;t built with mailbox-to-mailbox migration in mind. It&#8217;s a container, not a transport protocol. Getting a Google Workspace mailbox into an MBOX file that&#8217;s actually usable, complete, and organized the way it was in Gmail takes more care than the &#8220;<b>click export, wait, download<\/b>&#8221; story suggests.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Actually_Comes_Across_in_an_Export_Google_Workspace_to_MBOX\"><\/span>What Actually Comes Across in an Export Google Workspace to MBOX?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A properly built MBOX export from Google Workspace should retain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Message bodies and formatting<\/b>, including HTML content exactly as it rendered in Gmail.<\/li>\n<li><b>Attachments<\/b>, embedded within their original messages rather than stripped out separately.<\/li>\n<li><b>Headers and metadata<\/b>, such as sender, recipient, subject line, and timestamp.<\/li>\n<li><b>Gmail labels<\/b>, preserved through an X-Gmail-Labels header that most clients ignore on import but that stays intact in the raw file for anyone parsing it later.<\/li>\n<li><b>Read\/unread status and folder structure<\/b>, so the export doesn&#8217;t collapse years of organization into one flat archive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miss any one of these and the export technically &#8220;worked&#8221; while still failing the person who has to use it six months from now during an audit to save G Suite Email as MBOX.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Manual_Two_Ways_to_Export_Google_Workspace_Emails_to_MBOX\"><\/span>Manual Two Ways to Export Google Workspace Emails to MBOX<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Google Takeout<\/b>: Takeout is the free, built-in option, and it&#8217;s genuinely fine for a single mailbox or a small handful of users.<\/p>\n<p><b>Where it falls apart at scale<\/b>: Takeout is a self-service, one-account-at-a-time tool. There&#8217;s no bulk mode, no admin override for hundreds of users, and download links expire within a set window, which forces re-requests if IT is slow to grab the file. It also offers no filtering beyond label selection, so a 40 GB mailbox comes out as one unwieldy archive regardless of what&#8217;s actually needed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Google Vault (Admin-Level Export)<\/b>: For Workspace admins with a Vault license, Vault offers more control than Takeout, including the ability to filter by sender, recipient, subject, date range, and keyword before anything gets exported.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Limitations_of_the_Google_Vault_Method\"><\/span>Limitations of the Google Vault Method<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Exports are tied to vault licensing; downloads typically expire within a couple of weeks.<\/li>\n<li>It is built for legal discovery rather than bulk migration.<\/li>\n<li>This method still requires manual per-matter setup for each run.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Advanced_Route_Export_Google_Workspace_to_MBOX\"><\/span>The Advanced Route: Export Google Workspace to MBOX<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Once the job involves more than a handful of accounts, a purpose-built tool like the <b>Cigati Google Workspace Backup Tool<\/b> closes the gap that Takeout and Vault leave open. <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/migrate-google-workspace-to-icloud\/\" target=\"blank\">Migrate Google Workspace to iCloud<\/a><\/b>, handling a migration where MBOX serves as an intermediate step rather than the final destination.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_it_adds_on_top_of_the_native_options\"><\/span>What it adds on top of the native options:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Bulk export<\/b> moving many mailboxes into MBOX in a single job instead of one login at a time.<\/li>\n<li><b>Selective filtering<\/b> by date range, folder, label, or sender, so the output isn&#8217;t an all-or-nothing archive.<\/li>\n<li><b>Resume-on-failure<\/b>: picking a job back up from the last completed item rather than restarting from zero after a dropped connection.<\/li>\n<li><b>Multiple destination formats<\/b> beyond MBOX, including PST and PDF, for teams that need the same source data in more than one shape.<\/li>\n<li><b>A migration report<\/b>, listing what exported cleanly and what didn&#8217;t, which matters when the export needs to hold up in an audit or legal proceeding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is also the same underlying approach useful for related jobs like <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-emails-to-pdf\/\" target=\"blank\">export Google Workspace emails to PDF<\/a><\/b> for read-only archival.<\/p>\n<p>To convert Google Workspace emails to MBOX format, look at how <strong>Cigati Google Workspace Backup Tool<\/strong> can migrate your data in a <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/g-suite-backup\/how-it-works.html\" target=\"blank\">Step-by-step process guide<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Where_Backup_G_Suite_Mailbox_to_MBOX_Commonly_Go_Wrong\"><\/span>Where Backup G Suite Mailbox to MBOX Commonly Go Wrong<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A few problems show up on nearly every MBOX export of real size:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Oversized archive files<\/b>: MBOX stores an entire mailbox as one continuous file. A mailbox with years of attachments can produce a single file several gigabytes in size, and most email clients start slowing down noticeably once a file passes 4-5 GB.<\/li>\n<li><b>Split downloads<\/b>: Large exports often arrive in multiple archive parts. Missing even one part means the import will look complete while quietly missing messages.<\/li>\n<li><b>Expiring download links<\/b>: Both Takeout and Vault set a shelf life on export downloads, generally somewhere between one and four weeks depending on the tool. Miss the window and the entire export has to be rerun.<\/li>\n<li><b>API throttling on bulk jobs<\/b>: Gmail&#8217;s API enforces a per-user rate limit and a daily project-wide quota ceiling. A tool exporting many mailboxes in parallel without deliberate throttling will hit that ceiling mid-run, stalling the job rather than failing it outright.<\/li>\n<li><b>Silent label loss<\/b>: Gmail labels survive in the raw MBOX file through a header, but plenty of import workflows and lightweight viewers simply ignore that header, so labels appear to vanish even though the underlying data is intact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Verifying_the_Export_Actually_Worked_Export_G_Suite_Emails_to_MBOX\"><\/span>Verifying the Export Actually Worked: Export G Suite Emails to MBOX<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Before treating an MBOX export as done, check that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <b>message count<\/b> in the MBOX file roughly matches the mailbox&#8217;s message count in Gmail.<\/li>\n<li><b>Attachments<\/b> open cleanly from within the file rather than showing as broken links.<\/li>\n<li><b>Read\/unread status<\/b> and <b>Gmail labels<\/b> are present, even if a given viewer doesn&#8217;t display them by default.<\/li>\n<li><b>Every archive part downloaded<\/b> and extracted without a truncated or corrupted file.<\/li>\n<li>If the export was filtered by date or keyword, spot-check that the filter actually applied as expected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Wrapping_Up\"><\/span>Wrapping Up<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Exporting Google Workspace emails to MBOX isn&#8217;t difficult in principle; Google gives every account owner and admin a built-in way to do it. The complexity shows up at scale: dozens of mailboxes, filtering requirements, expiring download links, and the very real risk of a job stalling halfway through a large export. Takeout and Vault cover the basics well to export Google Workspace to MBOX. Anything approaching organization-wide scope benefits from a dedicated tool that can batch the work, resume after failures, and produce a report that proves what actually moved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"faq-n my-4\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Frequently_Asked_Questions\"><\/span>Frequently Asked Questions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\">\n\n\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1785838637468\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>Q1. Can I export shared mailboxes or delegated Google Workspace accounts to MBOX?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\"><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Yes, but not through a personal Takeout request, since Takeout only exports the data of the account that&#8217;s signed in. Shared mailboxes and delegated accounts need to be exported either by an admin using Google Vault, which can search and export data across an organizational unit, or by a Cigati Google Workspace Backup tool authenticated with domain-wide delegation that can access delegated inboxes directly.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1785838842921\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>Q2. Does exporting Google Workspace emails to MBOX modify or delete the original mailbox data?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\"><strong>Ans<\/strong>. No. Exporting to MBOX, whether through Takeout, Vault, or a Cigati Google Workspace Backup tool, creates a copy of the mailbox data. The original messages, labels, and folder structure remain untouched in the source account unless a separate step, such as archiving or deletion, is explicitly performed afterward.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1785838900978\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>Q3. How are Google Workspace API rate limits handled during large mailbox exports?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\"><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Gmail&#8217;s API enforces a per-user quota and a daily project-wide ceiling, so a tool exporting many mailboxes at once needs to throttle requests deliberately rather than firing them all in parallel. Well-built export tools batch users, pace API calls within Google&#8217;s published limits, and back off automatically when a quota warning appears, which keeps a large job running instead of stalling it.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1785838914595\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>Q4. Can I resume the export process if it is interrupted?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\"><strong>Ans. <\/strong>With Google&#8217;s native tools, an interrupted export generally has to be started over from scratch. Purpose-built backup tools typically checkpoint progress per user or per folder, so a dropped connection or expired token resumes from the last completed item instead of forcing a full restart, which matters significantly on large mailboxes.<\/p> <\/div> \n<div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1785838934066\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>Q5. What happens if a mailbox receives new emails during the export process?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\"><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Messages that arrive after the export job has already scanned that portion of the mailbox generally won&#8217;t be included in that run. 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Does exporting Google Workspace emails to MBOX modify or delete the original mailbox data?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"<strong>Ans<\/strong>. No. Exporting to MBOX, whether through Takeout, Vault, or a Cigati Google Workspace Backup tool, creates a copy of the mailbox data. The original messages, labels, and folder structure remain untouched in the source account unless a separate step, such as archiving or deletion, is explicitly performed afterward.","inLanguage":"en-US"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#faq-question-1785838900978","position":3,"url":"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#faq-question-1785838900978","name":"Q3. How are Google Workspace API rate limits handled during large mailbox exports?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"<strong>Ans<\/strong>. Gmail's API enforces a per-user quota and a daily project-wide ceiling, so a tool exporting many mailboxes at once needs to throttle requests deliberately rather than firing them all in parallel. Well-built export tools batch users, pace API calls within Google's published limits, and back off automatically when a quota warning appears, which keeps a large job running instead of stalling it.","inLanguage":"en-US"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#faq-question-1785838914595","position":4,"url":"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#faq-question-1785838914595","name":"Q4. Can I resume the export process if it is interrupted?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"<strong>Ans. <\/strong>With Google's native tools, an interrupted export generally has to be started over from scratch. Purpose-built backup tools typically checkpoint progress per user or per folder, so a dropped connection or expired token resumes from the last completed item instead of forcing a full restart, which matters significantly on large mailboxes.","inLanguage":"en-US"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#faq-question-1785838934066","position":5,"url":"https:\/\/www.cigatisolutions.com\/blog\/export-google-workspace-to-mbox-format\/#faq-question-1785838934066","name":"Q5. What happens if a mailbox receives new emails during the export process?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"<strong>Ans<\/strong>. Messages that arrive after the export job has already scanned that portion of the mailbox generally won't be included in that run. 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