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Messages and attachments in your Gmail account in MBOX format. User settings from your Gmail account in JSON format.
Folder structure
For user settings, we provide a separate folder with each exported setting in their individual JSON file. For messages, we provide all of your mail in a single mbox file by default.Alternatively, you can choose labels to export, each of which will be contained in its own mbox file. When you export your mail from Gmail, each message's labels are preserved in a special X-Gmail-Labels header, in CSV format. While no mail client recognizes this header now, most mail clients allow for extensions to be written that could make use of this data.
How to handle this export
For more information about importing mboxes into your favorite mail client, here are some non-Google tutorials for Thunderbird and Apple Mail.
Below are all the possible formats you could have received in your archive:
Email messages
MBOX
An mbox is a way of storing mail messages and is supported by common mail clients like Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Apple's Mail program. These files are most easily opened by a dedicated mail client like those listed above.