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I tried to create a filter to forward in Gmail and selected the Also apply filter to 37 matching conversations. However, it did not work and the dialog does warn:

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Note: old mail will not be forwarded

Clicking Learn more shows in part:

Please note: When you create a filter to forward messages, only new messages will be affected. Any existing messages that the filter applies to will not be forwarded.

Therefore, how can I programmatically cause the 37 emails I'm interested in forwarding to be forwarded without manually sending each one individually in Gmail?

I see this one solution using Google Docs, but it seems pretty complicated to forward my 37 emails, I think manually doing it would be faster than this solution.

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There really isn't a simple solution. For 37 messages, I'd almost certainly just do them one at a time. It couldn't possibly take more than a half hour.

One other option might be to use Google Takeout to download all the mail messages with a certain label. The messages will be in MBOX format, and many email clients can import that without issue.

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I wrote the Mail Forwarder add-on for Google Sheets that can also help you forward old emails in Gmail to any other email address.

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  • I tried using this but couldn't bc your app is not verified with google. >This app has not been verified yet by Google in order to use Google Sign In. Mar 6, 2020 at 7:43
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    The app has moved to emailstudio.pro Mar 6, 2020 at 11:30
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If you control the destination account, you can connect both the new account and the Gmail account to a mail client via IMAP. Then drag the 37 messages from the Gmail account to the new account.

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Or use https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back , which allows you to transfer emails to/from gmail as a bundle. I'm not affiliated with this group in any way, but found the software to be friendly and very well built.

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If you are using Chrome, then I have a simple solution for you which allows you to forward 100 message together everyday.
Check out : Multi Forward For Gmail

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    Multi Forward for Gmail has a lot of review that says it dies after forwarding 25 emails. And supposedly it has a 100 email a day limit. So buyer beware, it is free. :) Jan 26, 2018 at 4:58

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