Another method would be to download the via POP. You need to enable this on your gmail account. After that is easy to set up. To make it easier I would suggest grabbing the goggle account extension. Makes it easier to create a google account. I forget the exact name but if you search on the thunderbird addons site you should find it. Otherwise under help in your gmail account will tell you how to set up a pop account for it.
IMAP will work as well but you need to copy them out to other local folders to make sure they are stored locally. By default IMAP won't download the whole message only the header. -Darth On 8/10/2009 4:08 PM, Chris Clifton wrote: > You could set your Google mail account up as an IMAP account in > Thunderbird. Just follow the "New Account" dialogue in Thunderbird > chosing IMAP as the account type and entering your Googlemail username > and password where required. The first time this new account checks for > mail, it will download a list of folders from Googlemail and headers for > all the stored mails. Selecting a mail from any folder will then > download the mail for reading. After setting up an IMAP Google account > in TB any message, old or new will be available both on the Googlemail > web site or in Thunderbird. > > Leighton Williams wrote: >> I have 500 email stored on my Google Mail account online. I need all >> the emails imported into Thunderbird. How do I do this? >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
