Google Email Uploader for Mac available now

The Gmail of a few years ago was quite primitive in comparison to the current incarnation. Still, threading and a nearly-bottomless cup of storage space made it appealing despite early privacy fears. I use Gmail extensively nowadays, complete with a bunch of tweaks, add-ons and lab components. Problem was, all my old email still lived on my "antique" addresses, and worse, I couldn't access those emails within the handy search tool in Gmail. Google Apps came along and while you could now better control email (using your own domain, for example), the same problem existed: your old email didn't migrate to your Google Apps account.

Enter the Google Email Uploader for Mac. It's a simple tool allowing you to upload your old mail to your Google Apps account. That's it! Apple Mail, Eudora and Thunderbird all seem to be supported, but note there are some real limits if you have a ton of email. Here's what Google says to keep in mind:

Start small. Due to server upload rate limits, the uploader is fast for up to 500 messages, and slow thereafter (1 message per second.) Pick a small subset of your mailboxes when first trying out the uploader.
Be patient. Even after uploading completes, the server requires a while to process uploads.
Do assign a custom label (this is checked by default.) This lets you effectively "undo" the uploads later by deleting all messages with the label. Deleting the label itself will not delete the mail.
If you have many mailboxes in your archives, creating labels for each mailbox probably is not a good idea, as this could create far too many labels.

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OGenius

You should take a look at this article too (written in french and translated with Google...) http://tinyurl.com/yjhxrk7

March 26 2010 at 3:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sandstorm

Well - that's exactly what I did. In Apple mail I moved messages from POP account to new IMAP account & that started to upload my old messages to my newly created Google Apps account. I think it took all night.

But in the end, unfortunately, something got interrupted or whatever... I now have my 9544 messages on computer, but in Google Apps I see only 5259... Everything actually works, but I'd want to get ALL places synchronized 1:1... I don't know how... I don't know how to make Apple Mail to sync the still missing messages.

Any ideas, guys?

February 01 2010 at 5:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Sandstorm

I'm sorry, I intended my comment to Andrew & Michael Schmitt.

February 01 2010 at 5:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jim Z.

Gmail shows conversation count, not message count. Are you sure you're comparing apples to apples?

February 02 2010 at 1:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andrew

not sure how this is different from dragging mail from one mailbox/account in mail.app into your gmail mailbox/account?

that's how i loaded all my old compuserve, juno, hotmail, yahoo, and other outdated e-mail addresses into gmail.

February 01 2010 at 4:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Michael Schmitt

I'm with Andrew: My Mail.app has my Gmail and MobileMe accounts in IMAP format. I just dragged and dropped all of my other (Yahoo!, etc.) accounts onto the Gmail account and it loaded it all up. There's now 8 year's worth of e-mails on Google's servers, and I just did a drag-n-drop...

February 01 2010 at 4:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

skatejunkcom

If only this uploaded would allow me to upload to my gmail.com address... Hopefully in a future revision.

February 01 2010 at 4:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bananabelle

Seems great, but I'd prefer a gmail desktop client for the mac. I hate that mail.app doesn't have threaded conversations. Lack of threaded conversations have made my mailbox look so cluttered, and threaded conversations are one of the features that made me fall in love with gmail back in the day.

Does anybody know any applications that would suit my needs?

February 01 2010 at 3:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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