Import mail from previously used programs

[Pavel Moukhataev]

Hello

I'd like to suggest new feature: import e-mails and chats from other
legacy programs. I'd like to add possibility to avoid e-mails and
chats migration from one host/OS to another - it will be very fine to
import everything into gmail and to forget about everything except
gmail and search my history using gmail.

Thanks.

[Manager]

Hi,

I may not agree with you. Such feature, may be regarded as very huge
programming task to make client's software in-order to complete this
task for all Gmail users. For example, client software, for windows
98, 2000, Vista, Linux, Mac OS, etc and every newcomers to OS world.
This will remove an important feature related to any web application,
this feature is the platform independency, hence this will lead to
incomplete feature.

On Dec 26, 10:45 am, Pavel Moukhataev <pavel.moukhat...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Surranó]

Although it is officially not completely supported you may use IMAP.
E.g. if you have some mail in good old Unix mbox format (from the
times when only Universities had access to Internet ;) ) you can use
Thunderbird to
- open the mbox file(s)
- connect to GMail using IMAP
- copy all mail from mbox files (treat each file as a mail folder) to
GMail (create folders in TB - they become labels in GMail)
For Outlook files (e.g. pst) you can connect GMail using IMAP from
Outlook and do the same.
According to my experience, though, IMAP is quite slow and has some
issues, esp. with large emails.