I suppose you could mail yourself a big text file. Personally, I just kept the old client around a while until I was sure I didn't need it (but obviously I disabled the automatic mail checking). After a few months the older emails are of no interest except archival.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:39 PM, db<db...@att.net> wrote: > Good point. > Creature of habit I guess... > > To do that ... how would one transfer email stored by a email client > software to a new google web email account? > > Need to have the existing 1 GB email store from a non google computer based > email client account uploaded somehow ... which goes back to at least part > of my original question... > > db > > Tony B wrote: >> >> No, I haven't. But why are you trying to make it so complicated? The >> rage these days - for very good reasons - is simply to use your >> browser for email. No muss, no fuss. >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM, db<db...@att.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> I know that if you set up a new Google Email account with various >>> "labels" >>> first and then a new local IMAP email client (like Thunderbird) second, >>> when >>> you connect for the first time your "Labeled" Google mail will show up/ >>> download in Thunderbird as Folders with the same name as the labels. All >>> sorted so to speak. >>> >>> Does anyone know if you do it the other way around... if you have a Tbird >>> POP account with various folders on your local machine tied to your >>> domain >>> name being served up by some ISP and you change the domain named server >>> mail >>> to be/ to forward to a Google email account, when they sync for the first >>> time will all your Thunderbird POP folders be synced/ uploaded on to >>> Gmail's >>> server as "Labels" archived or otherwise? >>> >>> I suspect not because of the difference between POP and IMAP but what I >>> am >>> REALLY curious to know is once the connection is made and an IMAP Google >>> acct. has been configed in Tbird, will I be able to simply drag the >>> folders >>> on the client machine from the POP local Tbird client folders to the >>> local >>> Tbird's Google IMAP account folders and then will Google server see them/ >>> upload/ sync them and accept them as labeled perhaps archived mail? >>> >>> Has anyone done this before? >>> >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
