I'm back and I see the thread has progressed without me. Thanks
everyone for the info.
Initially I was asking about moving a Tbird POP acct from a local ISP to
a IMAP Gmail account and particularly if anyone knew if Gmail would
accept archived mail folders from the old account and show them as
Labeled emails.
I see Tom answered that question ... that he read that Gmail will do
this ... so that's good to know.
Your comments about just using webmail made me think of another related
question:
As you say, Gmail will let you forward various addresses to it and I
would guess that it will let you send mail from there as if from any
other Gmail account that you might have.
If you have forwarded three ATT.net mail accounts to it however, will it
also let you send from within Gmail as any of those ATT.net addresses?
That's one feature I really like about local mail clients...
db
Tony B wrote:
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<[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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<[email protected]> 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?
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