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Re: Import your old Outlook/Express PSTs to Gmail

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Re: Import your old Outlook/Express PSTs to Gmail

Petes — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:37:57 -0000

After a little bit of procrastination and stumbling around with other options that were suggested by Google, I finally got around to transferring my email from various sources to Gmail. I can sleep soundly at night now knowing that all my data is safely stored on reliable servers rather than my puny hard drive, and in one email account.

Although the article was written a while back, it is still effective and it saved the day. All the emails transferred over without any modifications in date received, mailing list info, etc.

Re: Import your old Outlook/Express PSTs to Gmail

Richard — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:18:32 -0000

Great work! Haven't tested for all the masses of emails I want to transfer but what I like is it even seems to work properly for sub"folders" (creating sublabels) when you do it.

Also looking forward to deletion of duplicates as I have a lot - I backed up at various different times and I think there's a lot of overlap.

Re: Import your old Outlook/Express PSTs to Gmail

Crazy8s — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:14:57 -0000

One more note: Be very careful not to delete any imap.gmail.com folders in Outlook as you're transferring. Copy the emails instead of moving them. Or give the new folder a different name on gmail so you can tell them apart.

I moved some mail from an Outlook folder over to imap.gmail.com. I gave the new folder the same name as the old one. I got distracted for a few minutes. Then, I came back to Outlook and deleted the folder, thinking I was deleting the old, now-empty Outlook version. Instead, I was deleting the new folder on imap.gmail, along with all the mail. There is no way to recover or undo this, at least that I could find. It's just gone. Luckily, it was not terribly important stuff.

Re: Import your old Outlook/Express PSTs to Gmail

Crazy8s — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:05:15 -0000

Hallelujah! Praise the lord! This article was my salvation. I'm leaving my job tomorrow, and wanted to transfer my personal emails to gmail. Not only did this work like a charm (and was WAY simpler than other work-arounds -- I found this one by limiting Google search to previous six months only), I was able to move only the few folders I wanted. And I could do this all myself without asking my Ph.D. engineering professor husband. Thank you!

Re: Import your old Outlook/Express PSTs to Gmail

louismg — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:44:44 -0000

Ryan Tate praises your solution:

GMail PST import solution!
http://thehack.webmasher.com/2007/11/gmail-pst-...

From now on, we come to you first! :-)