Comments on: HowTo: Load Mail Archives into GMail with Correct Dates http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2008/04/howto-load-mail-archives-into-gmail-with-correct-dates/ Thoughts, Projects, Happenings, Ideas Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:37:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brad http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2008/04/howto-load-mail-archives-into-gmail-with-correct-dates/comment-page-1/#comment-1402 Brad Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:44:53 +0000 http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2008/04/howto-load-mail-archives-into-gmail-with-correct-dates/#comment-1402 Thank you for posting this; it has started me in the right direction. However, using the above instructions, I consistently received an error message that Thunderbird has failed to connect to the server, and I have struggled for a long time before finding the answer. Probably something has changed between the publishing of these instructions and the current date, July 2009, and I think that must be at Google's end. A side-effect of this problem is that Thunderbird never asks for a password for the e-mail account, so the failure is at a fundamental level of the IMAP conversation. Finally, I have been able to make it work by replacing "imap.google.com" by "imap.gmail.com" - this is critical (I am using it with Google Apps for Your Domain - I don't know if this makes a difference). Also, a piece of information for those migrating their e-mail to Google Apps: the Apps version of Gmail allows you to configure your mailboxes in advance of changing your mail server settings, so you have the chance to set up and test everything prior to burning your bridges. The address of those temporary Gmail mailboxes, at the time of writing, is your_mailbox@your_domain.com.test-google-a.com where you supply the domain name "your_domain" you are going to use with Google Apps and the mailbox "your_mailbox" which you are trying to pre-load and which you have created in Apps' control panel on your domain. So if, in Thunderbird, you specify e-mail address: your_mailbox@your_domain.com.test-google-a.com and user name: your_mailbox@your_domain.com you should be able to pre-load all your old e-mail from your e-mail client, prior to cutting over Google Apps' name servers. Thanks again to the original author. Brad Thank you for posting this; it has started me in the right direction. However, using the above instructions, I consistently received an error message that Thunderbird has failed to connect to the server, and I have struggled for a long time before finding the answer. Probably something has changed between the publishing of these instructions and the current date, July 2009, and I think that must be at Google’s end.
A side-effect of this problem is that Thunderbird never asks for a password for the e-mail account, so the failure is at a fundamental level of the IMAP conversation.

Finally, I have been able to make it work by replacing “imap.google.com” by “imap.gmail.com” – this is critical (I am using it with Google Apps for Your Domain – I don’t know if this makes a difference).

Also, a piece of information for those migrating their e-mail to Google Apps: the Apps version of Gmail allows you to configure your mailboxes in advance of changing your mail server settings, so you have the chance to set up and test everything prior to burning your bridges. The address of those temporary Gmail mailboxes, at the time of writing, is

your_mailbox@your_domain.com.test-google-a.com

where you supply the domain name “your_domain” you are going to use with Google Apps and the mailbox “your_mailbox” which you are trying to pre-load and which you have created in Apps’ control panel on your domain.

So if, in Thunderbird, you specify
e-mail address: your_mailbox@your_domain.com.test-google-a.com
and
user name: your_mailbox@your_domain.com

you should be able to pre-load all your old e-mail from your e-mail client, prior to cutting over Google Apps’ name servers.

Thanks again to the original author.
Brad

]]> By: Dankus http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2008/04/howto-load-mail-archives-into-gmail-with-correct-dates/comment-page-1/#comment-1202 Dankus Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:03:35 +0000 http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2008/04/howto-load-mail-archives-into-gmail-with-correct-dates/#comment-1202 This is how I'm doing it right now. For some reason, though, Thunderbird won't show a progress bar anywhere, so it's hard to tell when it's done. This is as of 2.0.0.16. Used to work fine in older versions. You have to watch the message count in the folder to see when it's done. But it works! This is how I’m doing it right now. For some reason, though, Thunderbird won’t show a progress bar anywhere, so it’s hard to tell when it’s done. This is as of 2.0.0.16. Used to work fine in older versions. You have to watch the message count in the folder to see when it’s done. But it works!

]]> By: Danno http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2008/04/howto-load-mail-archives-into-gmail-with-correct-dates/comment-page-1/#comment-1130 Danno Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:29:43 +0000 http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2008/04/howto-load-mail-archives-into-gmail-with-correct-dates/#comment-1130 Hey man. Thanks so much for posting this. It was really helpful. Hey man. Thanks so much for posting this. It was really helpful.

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