Comments on: gExodus 0.2 – some new features for Gmail mbox import tool

By: Michel van Westen

Michel van Westen — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:58:51 +0000

It’s very nice of you software developers to not have me enter the domain name of my gmail address (@gmail.com), but i actually would like to use your tool with google-apps which is running on my own domain. So my account name is user@myowndomain.com. Is there any way that i could use your very handy piece of software with my google apps? Thanks in advance.
Michel van Westen

By: Nacho

Nacho — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:36:20 +0000

I wasn’t able to get gExodus to work (smtp issues) and after looking for a lot of help I finally found Google’s Mail Fetcher. It accomplishes the same process as gExodus but works automatically. I used it to move all my old mail from one gmail account to another. But it’s not limited to that, it can grab mail from any POP account.
This was the quick a dirty alternative to trying to understand IMAP.

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:09:07 +0000

Hi, I keep running into problems trying to connect to the smtp servers. I can’t connect to Google’s or my ISP… any idea why this may happen?

Thanks!

By: Seth Rosenberg

Seth Rosenberg — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:28:12 +0000

Is there any way to filter emails in Thunderbird against your existing gmail account. In the beginning I was using Thunderbird and gmail — I want to delete call emails from Thunderbird that are already in gmail.

By: Zachs Greene

Zachs Greene — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:39:58 +0000

Hi,

Are there any updates expected soon?

By: Martijn Dekkers

Martijn Dekkers — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:48:48 +0000

Hiya, great tool. I am too looking for a way to upload to hosted account, so not using an @gmail.com address. Also, date/time preservation?

By: Tim Butterfield

Tim Butterfield — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:34:06 +0000

Thanks for the great tool! I am in the middle of uploading several thousand messages to my gmail account. I ran into the already mentioned problem of hanging on a missing subject header, but I found a way around the problem. The message file (without the extension) can be edited in notepad. After making a backup copy, I _carefully_ inserted the Subject: line header between the From: and To: headers using another message as an example of where to put it. A quick check in Thunderbird showed the new subject header showed up fine. At first, though, the upload to gmail still hung on these messages. But, after I compacted the folder in Thunderbird, it upload just fine.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:31:30 +0000

Thanks for this great tool. I agree with the others here saying that the date/time should be preserved when it reaches your Gmail inbox. IMO, it’s not a proper import if the date and time aren’t presented properly. Hopefully Google will take notice of this – maybe even making their own import tools. Any workarounds until they do??

It might be useful too if you could integrate dbxconv into gExodus; i.e. allowing people to import and convert Outlook Express DBXs seamlessly.

This app is 2 years old and it’s still getting comments LOL! Do you think it will get an update soon??

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:31:30 +0000

It might be useful too if you could integrate dbxconv into gExodus; i.e. allowing people to import and convert Outlook Express DBXs seamlessly.

This app is 2 years old and it’s still getting comments LOL! Do you think it will get an update soon??

By: Grace

Grace — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:53:52 +0000

Is there any way that you can preserve the original dates/times (in the original headers) that the emails were sent? That would make this great product even better! Right now the date/time that shows up in Gmail (how Gmail sorts things) is the date/time that Gexodus imports the mail into Gmail.

I would really love to get a hold of a program which preserves the original dates the emails were sent, so I can sort my emails by date. Reading the posts, it seems others would really like this as well.

Any possibility of this in the future?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:19:12 +0000

Can you update this so that it will work with Gmail’s new hosted accounts? All I need to do is be able to use a domain other than @gmail.com for this to work with my Gmail hosted account. Thanks!

By: Jirka Cech

Jirka Cech — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:05:27 +0000

Hi, first, thank for a nice application. It does work, but I do have some problems.
I am using the latest (stable) Thunderbird (1.5.x) on Mac OS X. I’ve just moved my mailbox file with ~2000 old mails to windows box, and I tried to upload it to gmail.

None of proposed SMTP servers does work at all, not the default 57something, not the active which I located by MX lookup. Finally, I got some response from the local server in my company (mail.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de) but all fun stops after 8 mails.

Any hint, tip or trick to try?

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:22:23 +0000

I have one feature request (if this thing hasn’t died!) and one “hack” for those of you wanting to use this on a Google Hosted Domain Account!

The hack first as I was trying to figure out a way to do this, Mark Lyon’s tool kept giving me Tk errors and that’s over my head, and then I just had the simple idea of doing this:

blah@hostedgmaildomain.com #

Yeah, I threw in the hash mark at the end. after that, the e-mails sent in fine! No problems here! Not sure if that successfully commented out the gmail.com part, but it works and I haven’t had any wonky e-mails yet!

As for the feature request, is there a way, like Mark’s utility, to choose to upload messages to the Sent folder? I want to archive ALL of my e-mails, to and from myself. If this is already a feature and I just haven’t stumbled on it yet, apologies :).

Thanks for a great utility!!!

By: Horst G.

Horst G. — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:07:54 +0000

hello, i used your great utility to upload 7000 mails to my gmail-account (-:
it´s a great piece of software. thanks.

i converted outlook-express dbx-files with dbxconv and uploaded these files

most file had no problems. however a single mdx file did not work as expected. your program stopped after uploading a few mails. (no error, no crash, no further upload… – i don´t know what happened here..)
i copied the mails to another folder, compressed it, converted it again and tried to upload it. the same problem. mark lyons upload hat similar problem with this file.

suggestions:
improve the log

typical message:
Statistics: 2411 successful, 2 error.
so wich mails had erros?. scrolling the log is a pain.

tell me how many message are in the file before starting the upload. try to give a rough estimate of time left.

thanks

By: William

William — Mon, 22 May 2006 21:32:18 +0000

I also am interested in importing my email into the Gmail hosted account. Let me know if you add that functionality. Thanks!