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Moving emails from local folder to IMAP

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I have an archived mailboxes in .mbox format on my local PC. I got an error message when I trying to move messages with attachments to my active mailbox: "Connecting to server imap.gmail.com timed out". Messages without attachments moving fine if I don’t try to move it in large quantities (~100-200 messages per move) which is very inconvenient if you try to move mailboxes with 100k messages. But time after time I got the same error message when I trying to move messages without any attachments. Any help please?

I have an archived mailboxes in .mbox format on my local PC. I got an error message when I trying to move messages with attachments to my active mailbox: "Connecting to server imap.gmail.com timed out". Messages without attachments moving fine if I don’t try to move it in large quantities (~100-200 messages per move) which is very inconvenient if you try to move mailboxes with 100k messages. But time after time I got the same error message when I trying to move messages without any attachments. Any help please?
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There is nothing you can do about it, except move or copy them in small batches because Google imposes bandwidth limits on Gmail IMAP traffic. See https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518?hl=en for details.

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There is nothing you can do about it, except move or copy them in small batches because Google imposes bandwidth limits on Gmail IMAP traffic. See https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518?hl=en for details.