Re: [Gmail-Users] Importing email into gmail.

[Caleb]

This way would be a lot of work but effective.  Before you get into it read the answer and the comment and the 'clarification of answer' cause it constitutes downloading thunderbird or something else and dling all your imap email into it.

On 4/20/05, Andrew F. Donnell <donn...@gmail.com> wrote:

I really like the gmail interface, and am switching over to using it as
my primary emailer.  Currently the bulk of my email archives reside in
an IMAP account that I can access with things like Outlook and
Thunderbird.  Given the Google philosophy about how great it is to be
able to archive all your messages and search them and do neat stuff
like that, it would follow that there would be some provision for
importing old email from another provider to gmail.  I have found
discussions about how to do this in a manner that does not retain the
time-stamp of the original message.  I want to be able to keep the
messages like they were originally.

I have found that I can access Hotmail via Outlook, and drag and drop
messages from that account into my IMAP account without changing
anything.  I cannot do that with gmail, presumably because it is only
accessible by POP.

This is driving me mad and any advice would be much appreciated....

Thanks,
Andy

--
Caleb
"May I ask you if you've considered all the possibilities that down might offer you?"  --The Elevator

[doc...@gmail.com]

I don't understand the way that answer went. I knew about that site
the first day I got my Gmail account, and the answer is right on the
<http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/default.htm> page. He links to a
program that directly translates a PST to an mBox, so downloading
thunderbird is unnecessary, you only need two programs, one from PST to
mBox, one from mBox to GML.

I haven't done it myself, but have the same reasons as Andy.

[Caleb]

Im not sure...I used to recieve mail from a yahoo group and at the time yahoo was having problems understanding that i was in centeral time so the timestamp was a few hours off.  But gmail showed the correct time in one view, either message or list....i dont remember.

On 4/21/05, Andrew F. Donnell <donn...@gmail.com > wrote:

Caleb wrote:
> This way < http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=378643>

would be a
> lot of work but effective. Before you get into it read the answer and
the
> comment and the 'clarification of answer' cause it constitutes
downloading
> thunderbird or something else and dling all your imap email into it.

I have seen this gmail loader program this thread suggests, but it
sounds like it does not preserve the original timestamp of the message,
so when you see the messages in the list, it shows the time they were
received by gmail, not the time they were originally sent.  I would
like something that will not alter the timestamp, if that is possible.
It may not be....

Thanks though,
Andy