Use cases → Email operations
Archive or export every mailbox on a schedule
Systematically export mail for compliance, migration or analysis across an entire domain, mailbox by mailbox.
| Who it is for | Compliance, legal and IT teams; anyone preparing a migration. |
|---|---|
| APIs | Gmail API |
| Typical scopes | gmail.readonly |
The problem
Export tooling is per-user and manual. At any scale it becomes a project nobody has time for, so it is done badly once and never again.
How it works
- Enumerate users through the directory.
- Impersonate each in turn with a read-only scope.
- Page through messages, capturing headers, bodies and attachments to durable storage.
- Record a per-user cursor so the job is resumable.
What changes
A repeatable export that runs unattended and can be re-run for a single user without redoing the domain.
Questions people ask
Does this need full mail access?
gmail.readonly is enough to export. Reserve the full mail.google.com scope for cases that genuinely need delete.
Want this built?
This is a pattern we run in production. We will set up the delegation and build this on top of it — $500 per hour, most of it working the same day.
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