I don't think this is what he was asking. I thought he wanted to know how to get all his *old* emails out of tbird on his machine and into gmail.
Once you're using gmail, there's no need for this Mail Fetcher, as you should just *forward* all your other accounts to gmail. On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Allen Firstenberg<cg...@addventure.com> wrote: > Gmail can import from a POP3 mailbox: > http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=21288 > > <http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=21288>Tony > - sure, it might not be of interest except archival. But given the indexing > tools you get with gmail... thats a bonus! > > 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/ ** *************************************************************************
