{"id":281,"date":"2009-12-09T18:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T01:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/gmail\/?p=281"},"modified":"2010-04-04T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T22:13:46","slug":"migrating-my-email-to-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckchat.com\/gmail\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Migrating My Email to Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fate conspired against me a couple years ago when I hit the limit on Gmail<\/a>. If you’re not a Gmail veteran, here’s a quick refresher. When Gmail first came out it offered a whopping 1GB of storage for free. This was far larger than the 10MB my ISP was offering at the time. By mid-2007 the capacity was up to 2GB – and still free. Who was I to complain… Until late 2007 when I ran out of space.<\/p>\n

My solution at the time was to start up Mozilla Thunderbird<\/a> and use IMAP protocol to download all the messages to my local PC, then wipe Gmail clean. Sure it kept the file attachments, but I lost all my labels. I could still search through the archive and rebuild my email in the cloud.<\/p>\n

Sadly (for me), only a few months later, Gmail capacity started shooting up again… 3GB… 4GB… 5GB… 6GB… 7GB… in a matter of months. It figures. Now everytime I want to find something I have to search two places when Gmail is large enough to hold the original 2GB, the 2GB I added since then, and still have plenty of space. But how to get my Thunderbird archive back on to Gmail?<\/p>\n

Enter Ben Shoemate and his wonderful article<\/a> explaining it all. Ben made it sound so simple to gather up the email and send it off to Gmail. Except I had problems.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t get Gmail to recognize the server on my machine. Long story short, it turned out to be my Windows XP Firewall settings. Although I believed my exception in the port listing did the trick, it did not. I had to completely stop the service in order to make contact between any other machine and port 110 (POP3) on my machine.<\/p>\n

What’s more, once I made contact, I had problems authenticating. Solution: I had to create another account and transfer the email messages (again) from one local IMAP account to another. A little time consuming, but soon I’ll have all my email safely back in Gmail’s hands.<\/p>\n

And if you really don’t believe all your data is safe in the cloud, you can always use Gmail Backup<\/a> to keep a copy.<\/p>\n

Thanks Ben!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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