Comments on: Upload your Outlook Emails to GMail

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:34:43 +0000

Great tutorial. My only problem is the email shows up in Gmail without html. Text is there, but images only show as web links. Any ideas on how to import so images show?

By: Web 2.0 Marketing Techie

Web 2.0 Marketing Techie — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:19:33 +0000

Thanx. The Imap forwarding was the missing piece. I had the same ideal, but was using the POP forwarding.

By: Nick Blevins

Nick Blevins — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:43:09 +0000

Just a note for anyone who has this problem, as I was moving old deleted items, I got this error:

"creating a new item from the selected items could take some time"

If I chose yes it would create a new email and stop the transfer and if I chose no it would stop everything.

The problem was that I was trying to move old, deleted calendar entries. So, I sorted by type and deleted all my old calendar entries permanently, then I was able to move everything without a problem.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:44:28 +0000

If and when you need to move 10,000+ emails like I did – this method of 100 at a time can take a long time. I wrote a tutorial a while back that can help you do it faster (faster meaning automated over the weekend). Basically you set up your own pop sever at home and let gmail sync to it – here is the link: http://www.benshoemate.com/2007/11/09/how-to-upload-all-your-old-archived-email-to-gmail-from-outlook-lotus-notes-and-unix-pine/

By: programmer780

programmer780 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:49:02 +0000

Thank you so very much. It worked and it is so helpful

By: kris kwalik

kris kwalik — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:21:32 +0000

Very cool and a Great help…I want to use a gmail account in lieu of Outlook personal folders.
All your tips worked.
BUT — I keep getting an error when I try to move messages to the Imap folder in outlook….

“…could not complete. One or more parameter values are not valid” Any ideas here?

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:15:20 +0000

Thanks! Very good way to upload stuff to gmail!

By: Dave Atkins

Dave Atkins — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:16:30 +0000

@Mario – I do not know what would happen if you just changed the properties of the existing account. Maybe it would sync? Maybe it would lose all your email? I think also Gmail has no concept of folders. Safer to have the two accounts and copy messages where you want them.

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:15:05 +0000

Maybe I am missing something. Why do you have to create a new account?. I already have a POP3 account in Outlook for downloading emails from my GMail account. Changing the properties of this account in Outlook from POP3 to IMAP (and enabling IMAP in GMail) wouldn’t be enough to get Outlook and GMail synchronized? Thanks in advance.

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I admit, I have not been on this webpage in a long time… however it was another joy to see It is such an important topic and ignored by so many, even professionals. I thank you to help making people more aware of possible issues.
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By: roger hayhurst

roger hayhurst — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:02:32 +0000

This process works well and is better described then GMail does it.

When you are moving contacts, don't forget to look on the *.nk2 file for auto-completes entries sometimes people use these instead of contacts. You can access and edit the nk2 file with a utility called nk2view.exe. You will need to add field names when you edit the nk2 file as it doesn't have any. GMail is sometimes a little fussy about field names when importing csv files so you may need to try some alternatives but I have found that 'name' and 'email' field names seem to work ok.

Lastly, I can endorse the comment about moving messages a few a a time - 20 to 50 or so, depending on the resilience of your gmail imap server - I found mine to be very variable so sometimes I was down to 20 or so and other times, I could move 100 or 150. Other times, it just died!

While all this does work, it is all rather hit and miss and, in my experience, rather time-consuming. Worth it, however, in the end!

R

By: Ricc

Ricc — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:33:08 +0000

Great!

After 2 hours of searching the internet for a solution, your tutorial is the first one that really works!

Thank you!

By: Luis Alvarez

Luis Alvarez — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:29:54 +0000

Wonderful solution.

Brilliant and siple.

Congratulations and thanks