Dec 16
PITA Project
Posted by Geren in Geek Log Add comments
Moving e-mail from POP3 or IMAP to Gmail is not exactly an easy thing … nor particularly clean. It seems that, no matter what you try, there’s not a way to maintain the original message date/time stamping. So, transferred stuff ends up as “newer” than your new mail, if that makes any sense.
If anyone knows of a workaroud that works (I’ve tried a few that don’t!), I’d love to hear about it.
December 17th, 2005 at 6:09 AM
Well, it’s a bit of a workaround, but Google Desktop will happily search all your mail, both local and Gmail, which might reduce the need to migrate mail at all. It does require you to maintain local copies, of course.
December 19th, 2005 at 6:36 AM
That may not be a bad way to go. Most of the stuff I’m trying to move is presently “archive” status, anyway.
December 21st, 2005 at 1:08 PM
PITA Project
Some problems encountered in the move to gmail….