Comments on: Simplified Guide to Importing All Your Archive Email Into Gmail

By: Move to Gmail from an Offline Client? « Technobabbles

Move to Gmail from an Offline Client? « Technobabbles — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:49:05 +0000

[...] Mail yet.) Some rely on automatic forwarding scripts, others on the new IMAP support (Zoli Erdos has a good write-up of the IMAP method, which I would like to try when I get the [...]

By: CB

CB — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:06:23 +0000

@emlwinmail
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.

By: emlwinmail

emlwinmail — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:09:49 +0000

sounds great & i set uo the imap accont in my winmai & enabled it on google, but Im lost after that.

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

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:54:41 +0000

Here's more on the other way around, i.e. backing up your gmail.

By: Yazmanta

Yazmanta — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:36:19 +0000

great, thanx mate!

PS: a little forum thread somewhere should be opened about this topic, since there are many questions

a google group would do, since everyone here is into google :p

By: Sri

Sri — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:24:03 +0000

as of feb09, this does not work anymore, you cannot copy mails to gmail consistantly

By: Nikesh

Nikesh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:46:27 +0000

Im updating using the copy / paste method above but the emails showing up on google mail online now are dated todays date and not as per the date i have downloaded them.

FYI -

Current emails are stored in Entourage on my Mac and they are being copied within entourage to my imap’ed gmail inbox.

Any ideas on why the date is not being uploaded?

By: rd

rd — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:36:22 +0000

I have read you can only cut and paste 200 at a time is that correct?

By: Mike C

Mike C — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:33:13 +0000

How about the other way around? Anyone know how to back up mail from Gmail or Google Apps Gmail to something local? I think a lot of us will be very very sad if something were to happen to all that mail we rely Google to keep safe….

By: Ryan Meray, C! Tech Solutions

Ryan Meray, C! Tech Solutions — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:59:58 +0000

I’ve been using this technique or a variation thereof for some time now to move clients off of OE, Outlook, Thunderbird, whatever, and over to the Gmail side. I did this for my own account a while back and now all 1.5GB+ of my email is accessible from any computer with ‘net access.

I am pretty sure I only found out about this method from your site, so I gotta say thanks for the tip!