{"id":15567,"date":"2009-08-13T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15567"},"modified":"2009-08-13T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T15:00:34","slug":"migrating-from-thunderbird-to-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-gmail.html","title":{"rendered":"Migrating from Thunderbird to GMail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As I’m trying to finish my migration of personal stuff from my work laptop to my home laptop, one long-outstanding item is email migration — to wit, I have a ton of mail (from 2006 and earlier) still sitting in Thunderbird that needs either archiving or moving into Gmail.<\/p>\n

Originally<\/a> I did a bunch of this through an automated forwarding widget, the Google Gmail Loader, which worked fine except that it frelled up the send date.<\/p>\n

Recently I ran across several articles (e.g.<\/a>)\u00a0that pointed out a more clever way of doing this:<\/p>\n

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  1. Set up Gmail to act as an IMAP server.<\/li>\n
  2. Point Thunderbird to Gmail as an IMAP source<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. Basically reverse the normal process — drag mail from Thunderbird folders into Gmail.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Voila. Mail appears in Gmail, suitable for archiving, and with dates preserved.<\/p>\n

    I set this up last night, and it worked pretty well. The main issue seems to be that Gmail throttles the connection (I ran across a reference to it somewhere last night, but can’t find it now) to some hundreds of messages per hour, after which time the transfer fails until a cool-off has occurred. That’s annoying, to say the least, but I think I can work with it over time. And it would be nice to get all of that mail into a searchable platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As I’m trying to finish my migration of personal stuff from my work laptop to my home laptop, one long-outstanding item is email migration — to wit, I have a ton of mail (from 2006 and earlier) still sitting in Thunderbird that needs either archiving or moving into Gmail. 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