Ok folks, throwing up a strange solution to our crazy problem.  Hope you 
can help clarify a few things.

We are dropping our old host - no ifs, ands or buts.  Our old host has the 
following: files, FTP accounts and our mail.

My question lies in the mail section.  We plan to employ Gmail as our mail 
server.  However, this is only going to be for emails that are coming from 
our old host.  They will be migrated to the Gmail server and the connection 
is severed between the old host and Gmail, thus these accounts will be 
inactive and only accessible for read only.  We plan to start with a clean 
slate on the new host side and ORGANIZE as that was our problem with the 
old host - thus the situation we are in.  

Are there any foreseeable (other than questions below) issues that this 
could cause?

If an email is needed to be forwarded after the connect is severed between 
old host and Gmail, is there any other way to do so other than updating MX 
records on the new host side? (would like to avoid doing so; a solution 
i.e. can email messages be downloaded from Gmail, imported into third party 
client (Outlook) and used from there?)

With the Gmail migration tool, does it literally migrate them or copy them 
over?  Can other tools such as mailjumpr.com be used if Gmail Migration 
tool migrates rather than copy?  (would like to have a backup)

How long does it take for the migration tool to complete? I have two 
accounts with upwards of 20k (yes you read that right, 20,000 emails) and 
the remaining 10 accounts with much less.

Thank you for your help.

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