Comments on: Gmail Loader: Moving Mail.app messages to Gmail http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/gmail-loader-transferring-mailapp-messages-to-gmail/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/gmail-loader-transferring-mailapp-messages-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-1259 Tim Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:08:15 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/gmail-loader-transferring-mailapp-messages-to-gmail/#comment-1259 That would be great. Thanks! That would be great. Thanks!

]]> By: Christian Bogen http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/gmail-loader-transferring-mailapp-messages-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-1258 Christian Bogen Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:55:52 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/gmail-loader-transferring-mailapp-messages-to-gmail/#comment-1258 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. 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.

]]> By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/gmail-loader-transferring-mailapp-messages-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-1256 Tim Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:19:57 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/gmail-loader-transferring-mailapp-messages-to-gmail/#comment-1256 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? 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?

]]> By: Christian Bogen http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/gmail-loader-transferring-mailapp-messages-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 Christian Bogen Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:11:00 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/gmail-loader-transferring-mailapp-messages-to-gmail/#comment-1254 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¬¶) 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¬¶)

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