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Gmail Loader: Moving Mail.app messages to Gmail

GmailHawk Wings has posted about Mark Lyon’s Gmail Loader before back in the days (last year) when it was a command-line utility.

Things have changed. Gmail Loader now has a graphical interface and is much more “user-friendly”.

As the rush to Gmail’s web interface continues, James E. Robinson III provides a timely walk-through using the current version to get the emails from his IMAP account into Gmail’s system.mail.app, gmail, email, messages, mailboxes, mbox, emlx, Gmail Loader, web interface, transferring

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4 Responses to “Gmail Loader: Moving Mail.app messages to Gmail”

  1. Christian Bogen says:
    February 8th, 2006 at 9:11 pm

    When migrating from Mail.app I think it’s actually still better to use the old redirect-rule trick (with a local postfix as smtp server?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùmost easily started via sudo service smtp start).

    In my experience exporting the Mail data to mboxes (via MailScripts or emlx to mbox converter) and then using the GML will lead to a) broken and/or lost attachments and b) problems with character encodings.

    BTW, there’s still a way to import sent mails ?¢‚Ǩ¬?correctly?¢‚Ǩ¬? into Gmail (i.e. to make them show up in Gmail as sent mails too) even without the help of the GML. Move/copy all your sent mails to a dedicated local folder and use a good editor (one which can perform regexp operations on a whole directory, I recommend TextMate) to change all the from lines to Your Name <whatever@gmail.com>. (Basically that seems to be what the GML does, only less nice?¢‚Ǩ‚ÄùAFAIR it’ll give you something like whatever@gmail.com <whatever@gmail.com> instead ?¢‚Ǩ¬¶)

  2. Tim says:
    February 8th, 2006 at 9:19 pm

    Excellent. Thanks for the suggestions.

    If you write it up so that a simple soul like me can understand it, I’d be happy to post it.

    How about it?

  3. Christian Bogen says:
    February 8th, 2006 at 9:55 pm

    I’ll you send you a how-to via mail?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùbut it’s probably going to take me a few days for I have more important task at hand right now.

  4. Tim says:
    February 8th, 2006 at 10:08 pm

    That would be great. Thanks!

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