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add credentials for your chosen destination, ensuring proper routing of your data to the final
destination.

## GMail

GMail has a concurrency limit on access via IMAP, which at the time of writing is 15.
In order to not run into `[ALERT] Too many simultaneous connections`, you can reduce
the concurrency via:

```toml
[load]
# Prevent the IMAP error: "[ALERT] Too many simultaneous connections"
# by limiting the number of concurrent load jobs
workers=15
```

Bear in mind that IMAP connections are shared, so if you access a mailbox that is used elsewhere,
you may need to reduce the workers accordingly.

## Run the pipeline

1. Before running the pipeline, ensure that you have installed all the necessary dependencies by
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