It is not a comprehensive manual. It's just a blog note to remember some tricky solutions ("dirty tricks"). Feel free to contact me.
Suggest You set up Your Gmail account and decide to move all e-mail activities under Google's wing. Perhaps You have approx. 2Gb at Your old mailbox you@example.com. How to pull this archive to Your new Gmail you@gmail.com?
For Mail.ru and, maybe, some other services classical Mail Import does not work properly. Import fills Your address book by tons of trash records, like at Fig.1, 2 and did not get any of Your letters.
First of all, take a deep breath: nothing terrible has happened. Thanks Google, as a rule, all Your letters are still alive at you@example.com. Just take a rest, while cleaning up contacts.
The idea of handmade mail and addresses pulling is just simple: export addresses from you@example.com using CSV or any other appropriate format and import it to Gmail; subsequently, one-by-one enable POP3 access to mail folders at you@example.com and fetch letters, using Gmail's POP3 instruments, labeling fetched mail from Folder like you@example.com-Folder.
Address book import and appropriate formats are documented by Google here: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14024&hl=en .
Disable POP3 access to all folders of you@example.com, except Inbox. Then fetch mail from Inbox to Gmail using POP3. How-to fetch mail to Gmail using POP3 is described there: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=21288 . In our case, You have to disable checkbox Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server and enable checkboxes Label incoming messages (you@example.com-Inbox, or corresponding label for other folders), and Archive incoming messages (Skip the Inbox).
Repeat this procedure for every folder of you@example.com. After finishing fetching every folder, delete POP3-fetching task to be able to fetch the next folder, marking messages by corresponding label.
That's all!
Suggest You set up Your Gmail account and decide to move all e-mail activities under Google's wing. Perhaps You have approx. 2Gb at Your old mailbox you@example.com. How to pull this archive to Your new Gmail you@gmail.com?
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| Fig.1: Trash records at Contact List after Mail Import. |
For Mail.ru and, maybe, some other services classical Mail Import does not work properly. Import fills Your address book by tons of trash records, like at Fig.1, 2 and did not get any of Your letters.
First of all, take a deep breath: nothing terrible has happened. Thanks Google, as a rule, all Your letters are still alive at you@example.com. Just take a rest, while cleaning up contacts.
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| Fig.2: Abscense of mail messages after Mail Import |
The idea of handmade mail and addresses pulling is just simple: export addresses from you@example.com using CSV or any other appropriate format and import it to Gmail; subsequently, one-by-one enable POP3 access to mail folders at you@example.com and fetch letters, using Gmail's POP3 instruments, labeling fetched mail from Folder like you@example.com-Folder.
Address book import and appropriate formats are documented by Google here: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14024&hl=en .
Disable POP3 access to all folders of you@example.com, except Inbox. Then fetch mail from Inbox to Gmail using POP3. How-to fetch mail to Gmail using POP3 is described there: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=21288 . In our case, You have to disable checkbox Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server and enable checkboxes Label incoming messages (you@example.com-Inbox, or corresponding label for other folders), and Archive incoming messages (Skip the Inbox).
Repeat this procedure for every folder of you@example.com. After finishing fetching every folder, delete POP3-fetching task to be able to fetch the next folder, marking messages by corresponding label.
That's all!
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