Comments on: gExodus – a graphical Gmail import tool

By: Name

Name — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:42:46 +0000

I know this thread is old … but now you can import gmails directly from one Gmail account (or google apps mail account) to another. Its under the Accounts area of Settings. Set up the account you want to import from as a POP3 source and then tell the Gmail account you want to import the emails into to go fetch the mail from the POP3-enabled Gmail account

By: Endolith

Endolith — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:50:08 +0000

This is great, but the dates aren’t saved correctly. Apparently the trick to saving the dates is to set up a POP server on your computer and have Gmail download the messages through the Mail Fetcher…

By: grambala

grambala — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:27:51 +0000

Pragmatopian wrote its possible to download with gmail using pop3 (from selfmade mailserver). I cant find such feature. Anybody else?

By: Pragmatopian

Pragmatopian — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:37:32 +0000

As an update, if the displayed dates are important, you could (1) temporarily set up a mail server with POP3 and IMAP protocols (such as Macallan Mail Solution Mail Server) on your computer, (2) drag and drop mails from archive folders into the mailbox using any mail client that supports IMAP, and (3) connect to the mailbox from GMail using the POP3 protocol to download the mails. This will retain the date stamps, although it needs you to be a bit more tech savvy and have an ISP that will allow the traffic.

I set this up in twenty minutes (mostly spent fiddling with my router config!).

By: ProfessorB

ProfessorB — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:18:32 +0000

In a future release, can you make the program tell users which messages weren’t sent due to error? When importing hundreds of messages, it’s hard to pinpoint which message wasn’t sent.

By: mary

mary — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:58:56 +0000

pkay, I must be retarded or something… I can’t figure out where the file is that has all my e-mail (I’m using Mozilla)

…I keep trying the file “po14.mit.edu.msf” but this doesn’t seem to work… am I looking for a particular extension that would clue me it is the mbox file I’m looking for?

thanks for your help!!
:)

By: memento

memento — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:11:06 +0000

I’ve been trying to use gExodus to move several thousand emails stored in several dozen mbox files to my gmail account. About half of the mboxes transferred successfully and about half stopped transferring after an apparently arbitrary number of emails.

After much frustration I eventually opened them in Thunderbird and found the problematic emails – it turned out that they were the emails with a blank Subject field. I opened up the mbox files in a text editor (BBEdit) and, with some creative find-replace work (regular expressions and line breaks were required for this), I managed to make sure each email that previously had either no “Subject:” field between the “To:” field and the “Date:” field or a blank “Subject:” field with minimal manual labor (be careful of emails with multiple recipients, it is easy to miss those with the find-replaces). The transfers then worked without a problem.

I hope that helps anyone who has had the same problem…

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:41:12 +0000

Great utility, although i will confess to not using it for importing to Google’s GMail. I am using it as a generic MBOX import/forward utility.

If you could make the whole email address field selectable then you could have a much wider audience, including forwarding to *any* popular web email system.

Result

By: German Gentile

German Gentile — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:19:38 +0000

Nice utility, amazzing utility, thabks a lot for that save time utility. Now, i need a little more flexibledomain at the end. Do you know now gmail is offering your own domain? So imagine (my case) you have a little business and need to put all that imap stuff online. You cannot (and dont want) use STANDARD gmail.com accounts, wanna export TO mydomain.com (under google) I think it must work just if you allow to change the domain where to send. If you feel is hard to accomplish, can i ask you for the code? TIA German.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:49:31 +0000

I am having the same problem as Kate (posted 4/7/05). I’ve imported my messages into Thunderbird, but when I run gExodus, nothing seems to be happening. (No error messages, though). When I checked Gmail, nothing had been transferred there yet. It just sits there.

By: DAVID

DAVID — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:11:11 +0000

Thanks so much to you all – I had 20 different folders over about two years from thunderbird – The labeling feature was what made importing possible – Thanks a million

By: Solomon

Solomon — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:56:42 +0000

Claudio,

Edit your mbox manually and take out the 1019 messages. gExodus does not sort the emails.

By: Shobhon

Shobhon — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:06:54 +0000

NikMan,

I had the same problem for a while, then used my ISP’s SMTP server (mail.optusnet.com.au for me). Your ISP might also be blocking other SMTP so try useing your ISP’s SMTP.

Hope this helps =)

Shobhon.

By: Claudio

Claudio — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:18:28 +0000

Quick question: What order does gexodus import emails from an mbox file in? I tried to import about 9000 messages last night and the import failed at message 1019. Rather than restart from scratch I’d at least like to delete the 1019 messages that have made it from my Thunderbird inbox, however, I seem to be unable to match the order (by date, by sender, etc) of the imported emails to the inbox. Any else figure this out yet?

By: Frank Gonzalez

Frank Gonzalez — Wed, 10 May 2006 17:47:03 +0000

I must say its a great post. Keep up the good work.

Frank Gonzalez
http://www.gmailcenter.com