Archiving mail killed my iCloud mail access

In the process of archiving four years' worth of email (nearly 20,000 messages), I can now no longer use mail.app or access my mail through iCloud.
Mail.app is frozen and will not quit. I haven't force-quit yet.
It shouldn't take 45 minutes to move 20,000 messages off of the iCloud server, should it?

Yes it could, depends on your Internet connection and the total size of those 20.000 messages.
If it is frozen then force quit and start again. Try archiving 1000 at a time rather than all of them at once.

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