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Gmail API messages.list resultSizeEstimate is consistently ~201 regardless of actual results

Surveying a Gmail mailbox via the REST API (gmail.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me), I used messages.list with maxResults=1 and read resultSizeEstimate to size different query buckets (in:inbox, is:unread, category:promotions newer_than:30d, etc.). Every query returned the identical estimate (201)…

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