some ADVICE to gExodus

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some ADVICE to gExodus

Gmail import tool
gExodus allows you to import your emails (in mbox format) into your Gmail account.gExodus – a graphical Gmail import tool…

Let me start by saying that this app is great!

OK, now I have to describe my frustrations with it. Each time I use it, around 1500 messages in, it starts to pump out “ERROR:” messages. If I knew what the error message was, I might be able to resolve the problem on my end, or at minimum wait a minute and try to continue where I left off. Unfortunately, there isn’t a way to continue, so I end up going into GMail, trashing all of my messages, emptying the trash, and starting over. After four tries now on three different machines, I’ve decided to wait until the next version comes out before I attemp a move again.

Hi Cheah Chu Yeow,
It would be helpful to usrs like me who use Outlook Express but who have no clue as to use the dbxconv with its command lines if… the gExodus could make use of the dbxconv.

If the dbxconv was kept in the same folder, gExodus could have an option to first have mails converted to mbox format using the dbxconv and then uploaded to Gmail.

Cheers :)

Just a quick comment for users who have Outlook, you can convert dbx files into mbx files using a tool called DbxConv. website: http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html

albert: I think this could be due to the mbox file being corrupted. I had a problem like this once. Thunderbird sometimes leaves the mbox file corrupted and gExodus (and GML, because we both use the same Python library functions) can’t parse the file correctly.

I just hangs for me, all the time, after the 178th message (if that makes a difference.) No error message, no warning, no nothing, it just hangs there with “178: Imported email ‘such and such’” and doesn’t move. I have over 500 emails in my mbox so I know it’s not done, and tcpdump shows no traffic over my internet interface… What’s wrong?

This only partially worked for me. I imported all of my Outlook emails into Mozilla Thunderbird. When running gExodus on a folder I know has over 80 emails in it (checked using Thunderbird, and even Notepad), it only uploads 12 of them, the same 12 every time I try.

Mr. Technosailer. I think you misspelled Mr. Cheah’s name wrong on your site under “Blogs I Read”:

Chu Yeaow

Though I am sure Chu Yeow doesn’t mind.

Course I butcher it every chance I get. ;-)

Worked well for me. Thanks for making this, it’d be pretty lame to have to forward all of my old email. One feature request: could you have it recurse subdirectories and import all the mailboxes in each directory? Okay two feature requests — though I doubt this one’s possible — could it set a label on each email corresponding to the name of the mailbox it’s imported from?

Well you spent a day coding a useful tool; I spent thirty seconds typing a comment. I don’t think you need to thank me! It reads like you think both requests are do-able, which is cool.

Having problems due to that my isp is blocking port 25. I do have access to authenticated SMTP via port 587.

Is there a way to change the port used and allow for authentication?

Thanks

Alright… I imported all my Outlook mail into Thunderbird .9 and when I select the file located at:

C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\BLAHBLAH.default\Mail\Local Folders\Inbox

It says: Using SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com

Cannot connect to SMTP server.

Any help? Everyone else seems to be having an easy time…

Anyone know of a way to repair thunderbirds email files? I too have a problem at the 160th message where it stops going, great otherwise

I am also getting the “Cannot connect to SMTP server.” error.

Nice tool, I will be adding this to my list of Gmail tools at the Gmail Resource.

Hi Cheah Chu Yeow,

Just wanted to say thanks for the nice program. I’ve imported over 70 MB of old emails into GMail using it.

I wanted to second a couple comment previously posted here,

1) I also get an ERROR: message when importing messages that have no subject. Not a big problem since it is easy to filter for these messages and import by hand.

2) The recurse multiple directories feature request or the ability to set the 3 (4 optional) parameters via the commandline. Writing a small shell script to recurse the directories and run a new instance of gExodus for each mBox file found would then be trivial.

Regards,

IC

Right I am new to all this and very easily confused! I am trying to export all of my hotmail emails into gmail. I have downloaded my hotmail messsages to Thunderbird thanks to “freepops” but when I run gExodus despite having filled in all the details correctly and pointing to an inbox with about 100 messages in it says 0 done 0 success 0 error
Nothing gets transfered! Why???

I am trying to use Gexodus to export emails from Thunderbird to gmail but it doesn’t appear to be doing anything? The file is quite large so do I just leave it to think about it or is it broken? How can I tell?

(I’ve checked my task manager and Gexodus seems to be using about 2000k?)

Cheers
Kate

I downloaded the lastest version of the “importer”. Problem I have is that it only imports messages from the current year. Is it supposed to do this or am I missing something here? Also, I am taking the “mbox” files from Thunderbird if that makes a difference. Thanks.

Great tool – two bugfixes/suggestions:
1. gExodus gets stuck on emails without subjects
2. Insert the requested label after any “Re:|Fwd:|Fw:” characters in the subject, that way gmail’s threading will work correctly.

Thanks for those who tried to help.

I don’t know how to edit messages in Thunderbird (to eliminate the empty subject line) – but even when I move all the empty-subject messages to another folder, the inbox (with 1600 messages) only sends 3 or 4 and stops. I tried to add a label in g-Exodus itself. So far No go.

I still appreciate the effort you have done for the community.

Thanks / will keep looking here from time to time..

Ami

Hi
I find this utility very usefull. But I would like to know if there is a way to keep the original date in e-mails imported from Thunderbird.
Best,
Dario

Hi, I am getting “Cannot connect to SMTP server.”" and I have tried almost all smtp addresses.

Please what else can I do. I really want to do this!

Thank you!

Thunderbird,
I beg you tell me use your software how to sent mail by date
My Mbox (inbox&sent) mail is clutter
I hope you understand what I say

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

Frank Gonzalez
http://www.gmailcenter.com

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.

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

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.

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…

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.

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

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