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If they had that I'd switch....
"We're working hard to roll out IMAP access to all our users, but it'll take about a week...You'll know that IMAP is available in your account when the Forwarding and POP tab in your settings becomes Forwarding and POP/IMAP."
One lesson learned from my end: rather than moving the folders, copy them. Moving them will create problems when (inevitably) the server looses its connection and you have to start over. Problems in the upload will also leave you with partial folders. Alternatively, do the process incrementally.
Pavel
I am using thunderbird in POp with gmail - and want to switch to imap. I have TONS, tons of folder, sub folder ... all neatly organized.
1/do you know if by drag and dropping my folder, gmail will automatically create a label for online ?
2/ what happen to the mail in the folders ? they will doubled up in gmail ? (i chose the option of keeping my mail online while using pop -we never know!)
Sebastien
I guess if you can't set Mail Fetcher up, you could always use the IMAP trick, basically making an offline email client the middleware.
I am nervous about the transfer and how to go about it.
lost in gmail and picassa.
Wendolyn Nicholds
Those appear in Gmail with subject "(no subject)" and from "(unknown sender)". When they're opened, the content is there but is prefixed with the entire mail headers beginning with "Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0".
The emails all show up correctly again in Thunderbird if they're copied back off Gmail over IMAP. So I guess it's a problem with Gmail.
Anyone else seen this?
Any suggestions?
Thanks for the help
-Gil
Not able to see any labels and was not able to drag and drop any emails to this new folder.
Any suggestions?
when you import mail into gmail it will collapse messages into "conversations". So if you had a back-and-forth with someone that created 10 messages and you imported it into gmail it may only count as one. This may or may not be why your count is off, just something to check.
Set up a personality for your gmail account with these details:
SMTP Server: SMTP.gmail.com
Check the "Authentication Allowed" box
Check the "Use Submission Port (587)" box
Select "Required, Alternate Port"
Incoming Mail: imap.gmail.com:993
Check the "IMAP" box
Select "Required, Alternate Port"
@all: So meanwhile I found three other reasons:
1. If you used Gmail via pop3 before switching to IMAP and deleted an email and now you want to upload exactly this email with a special label it won't show up with this label/in the subfolder IF the deleted email is STILL in the Trash! So before uploading empty your trash!
2. Some subjects of emails are causing problems so the won't be uploaded
3. The upload connection to Gmail breaks down after a punch of emails. At the beginning you can upload a few hundreds but after a while less and less ... at the end only a few at the same time. -> Take a break and come back later/ another day.
I am using an MS Exchange server with Outlook 2003 as the client with a "redirect all mail to 'my secret Gmail' address" rule on all messages.
If Chris sends an e-mail to me and to Ed and copies Diana, Gmail only shows Chris as the sender and "my secret Gmail" address as the recipient. So even if I do "Reply to all" in Gmail, I only respond to Chris. Worse yet, I can't even see in the header of the e-mail that Chris sent it to someone other than me.
I've found various add-ins for Exchange that address this, but they all seem to install on the Outlook client and require it to be running in order to work.
Anyone know how to get this working in Outlook 2003/Exchange based on server-side rules? Thanks.
Hopefully some of the readers can jump in...
anyone any ideas?
Do I open Outlook 2003 and then open some other PST file rather than "Outlook.PST"? Which PST do I open, "Archive.PST" Can't I just copy the contents of Outlook.PST to GMAIL? Just how do I do that? Perhaps an explicit step by step process would help me. Thanks.
In case there's a better way, let me summarize what I'm trying to do. I just installed Office 2007 yesterday (new computer) and setup Outlook to access gmail but I must have set it up to use POP instead of IMAP because when Outlook downloaded my e-mails it deleted gmail's copy. I want to be able to access my e-mails via Google's web interface so now I'm trying to move the messages back to gmail. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
I have similar problems than Rondracur (January 12th, 2008 at 4:42 am).
"I also tried to upload my emails from Thunderbird (2.0.0.9, Linux) to Gmail by creating an IMAP account. The copy process works without any error message - but not all messages of a folder are copied. And I don’t see any rule behind which one is copied and which one not. So at the end I have the whole folder structure of Thunderbird in Gmail now, but instead of around 200 MB emails I only have around 70 MB. Every help is appreciated!"
I don't know how to verify how many messages are seen as conversations (actually I don't know how the "one conversation is one to many messages" should be seen through IMAP).
I would have migrated my own domain to gmail, but due to these problems.. well.. I cannot migrate if I cannot be 100% sure all mail really is copied to gmail. :-/
I had the same timestamp problem - it seems to be client dependent.
Kontact gave me the problem.
Evolution didn't work at all (probably my setup)
Kmail works perfectly (which is weird because its otherwise v similar to kontact)
Hope this helps and good luck
Kmail has the same problem - it looks OK, but googlemail show the upload date.
I am about to try thunderbid. Anybody else got any cleints they know avoids the problem?
Felix
Thunderbird seems to work OK with date stamps
I transferred my Outlook 2002 mail to Gmail and all worked fine.... except for one big problem. All Hebrew e-mails in Hebrew that I transfer from Outlook to Gmail show up in giberish.
Gmail in Hebrew works fine, but Hebrew e-mails transferred from Outlook are unreadable.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.
(using outlook 2003)
problem though: there is just this imap-Inbox Folder showing up in outlook. No "Sent"-Folder whatsoever. Also, i can not move, copy, or create FOLDERS on the imap-account.
anyone knows why?
Do this at your own risk!!!
This seems like a serious mistake.
Did this using Gmail IMAP, Thunderbird, and YPOPs (google it!). This will import all your folders (I did it one at a time, configuring YPOPs each time for each folder).
Within TB, I created an account for my Yahoo pop download, and the IMAP for Gmail per Zoli's second bullet. IMAP created the full label structure from my gmail in TB (now I have a gmail backup too!). Downloaded each folder to TB from Yahoo using YPOPs, then moved the emails to the appropriate gmail label (folder) in TB, then synced it up to gmail. If a label didn't existing, I created in TB and it would replicate in gmail!
Email me at the name above "at gmail dot com" for specifics if you'd like.
It's annoying to look for an answer, but perhaps someone here know the trick ;)
Cheers~
IMAP syncs your SENT mail, too.
so I was't just doing something wrong or weird...
Well, then, IS there a WAY to trasfer all my 7000 sent e-mail from Yahoo+???
NOw I HAVE to trasfer to Gmail...
Or has dragging and dropping via IMAP been improved to the point where all email gets transferred?
Anyone have the same issue. I don't mind spending the time doing smaller chunks. I just want to make sure that it's reliable and actually transfering all of the emails! Any ideas on why it might be flakey?
"Can't move items. The file \gmail.pst has reached its maximum size."
Now this folder did get to be about 1.7GB, but then I removed my GMail account, and re-added it showing only certain folders/labels. The pst file is just a few Kb now. Yet I keep getting this message.
Any ideas? I have all my mail prior to 2007 archived in GMail now, and would like to get the 2007 email there as well.
Cheers,
Daniel Williams
You explicitely had to select "compress file" don't remember the menu path, but getting there involved displaying your data file, right click ...etc ..etc. The compress process can take forever, but in the end you end up with a small file.
Another option is to creat a new data file and just drag the relevant folders from the old file into the new one.
Now when I right-click on the imap account (imap.gmail.com), I see that the folder size is just about 400 KB there. But the "format" of the file is "Personal Folders File (97-2002)" It seems that this should be in a more recent format.
But if the local file is so small, then this message must be due to something else. Could it be that imap will tell Outlook the size of my GMail account? And Outlook then decides that that is too big? That would be odd, but it's all I can think of right now. More ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I'm trying desperately to leave AOL firmly in my past. I've used gmail's fetch to get my inbox. OK there. I want to get my archived folders, sent mail, and old (read) mail over to gmail to correspond with gmail labels.
note: I don't have the AOL client installed. I do everything on the web.
Can someone please direct me from here to get me on track with the instructions in this post?
1. Should I use Thunderbird? If so, how can I be sure that date-stamped info will be preserved?
2. What are these .pst files and do I have them?
3. Can I leave everything I fetch on the aol server as well as a backup? (incidentally, all of my fetched inbox mail was deleted from aol. I'm still hoping to find out how to stop that).
Many thanks
Thank you thank you thank you :)
Ever since Outlook went to Vista, it has been, at best, a pain in the butt! When one looks back on their experiences with this albatross, all you see is one glitch after another. Sometimes, all by itself, it starts acting up. As of this writing, I have developed duplicates of everything...how no clue. I have deided to move to web based email. Web based email for my busines? Yes. Yahoo is now unlimited storage, calendar, contacts and notes. If I want ot store info, externally, I use One Note...just hit the print button in Yahoo and it prints to One Note! If I want more in the PIM functions, I can buy Essential PIM for free or chose to pay for a few more bells and whistles. Yahoo lacks importing email from Outlook and I have a lot of reference emails. So I can load my emails into GMail and once in GMail, I can suck it into Yahoo. I also can leave that email in GMail as an Archive. That's why one wants to suck email into GMail...dump Outlook, save disk space, memory and grief. "And now you know the rest of the story!"
If I'd known about this before I'd have put a gmail folder on my Outlook ages ago. Much better than archiving it. It's taking ages to transfer my old emails, but it'll be worth it.
BTW - I find it easier to move rather than copy, as I've found that if the transfer fails for any reason, it's easier to just transfer what's left. If I copy mails, it's a pain to work out what's gone and what's not. That's assuming nothing gets lost, but I'm willing to risk it and it seems very stable so far.
I have successfully moved from Yahoo to Gmail using this post (beware that you NEED to choose Email Account -> IMAP, in Thunderbird 2.0 -> portableapps.com of course!, to be able to interactively work with your GMAIL account, POP is on by default!)
Also, give a quick read through of Google's recommended settings for Thunderbird.
Pre-creating the label groups in Gmail will make dragging and dropping into the label/folder easier (in Thunderbird it looks like a folder, go figure :)
I am pretty sure I only found out about this method from your site, so I gotta say thanks for the tip!
It wont drag & drop or copy (except to an exsisting locak folder)
What an I missing. Im really upset, after month sof converting my outlook to wimal eml, I just cant lose them in windows 7
I discovered this great post this morning (thankyou Zoli!) and successfully transferred gigabytes of archived .eml files in my Windows Mail local folders over to my gmail account. The first couple of drag'n'drops I had to do in small chunks otherwise the connection dropped, but then for some reason it stabilized and I just dumped the rest (90%) in one go.
I enabled IMAP for my gmail account online in gmail settings, then created an account in Windows Mail for my gmail address as per Zoli's instructions. Once you do this, it will ask if you want to synchronize folders, then all my gmail folders appeared in Outlook, one for each label in gmail. I had created a label online called 'transfer' to dump the .eml files into.
Since all my .eml files are in my Windows Mail local folders, in Windows Mail I just dragged those emails across to my 'transfer' folder under 'imap.gmail.com' top folder in Windows Mail. Then the local and online folders synchronize.
Hope the layman's description is helpful. I was totally lost until I found Zoli's post.