Uploading saved emails

[gamailer]

Here's the problem:

I had bout 300 saved emails on a Yahoo account and decided to move them to Gmail. I searched the web and found Mark Lyon's 'Gmail Loader'. Great! (To move the saved mail from Yahoo to my computer I just had to move them back to the Yahoo inbox, set Yahoo on POP3 access and access the account from Thunderbird.)

After moving a hundred emails from my computer to a Gmail account, via the gmsmtp183.google.com server, MY ISP's system figured I was spamming and automatically suspended my emailing privileges for 24 hours. I've still got the 'Sent' mails to move and the same thing to do for someone else...
And 'suspended' means ALL outgoing emails (except of course, Gmail, which they can't block because - I'm guessing - of it's SSL encryption! )

Anyone know a workaround for this ISP-induced problem?

[MrAcid]

Call your ISP and explain what you were/are doing. They'll probably grant acces again. Especially when you explain that the process will be over within 30 minutes or so. Good luck!

[gamailer]

Thanks MrAcid (and a happy NY!)... but not quite that easy! Suspension is automatic, apparently, with this provider, and even the young employee I spoke to told me they had done the same thing to him!

My experience of uploading saved emails is quite disappointing. It's not at all easy. It's very slow. The uploader can't handle some types of email and fails without error messages. Your ISP gets upset!!! And finally, Gmail gives all the uploaded emails the CURRENT DATE, which almost makes the whole exercise a waste of time.

Anybody else find the same thing... or am I missing something?

[[ugly_cat]]

hello,
google masters,
pls,d't quite for that.



regards

[gamailer]

Hey, ugly cat, I don't think anyone's listening, cept us!

You had the same experience?

(Later) ugly cat I just checked out your last 40 posts, and NOBODY can understand what you are trying to say. You need to study ENGLISH a bit more before you post.

[kservik]

I am looking for a solution to upload old emails myself. Is GMail Loader the best solution?

[gamailer]

If you want to go with what's available it is, Kservik from Oslo, unless someone else has a better idea... which I'd certainly like to hear. If I'd known how much trouble uploading was going to be I wouldn't have bothered with it.

I had thought that Gmail was an answer to the problems of email access from different computers and backup of saved emails. It could have been, I think, if they had chosen to facilitate the importing of saved emails. But on account of bandwith and other commercial considerations, they decided not to. Since then I have discovered portable apps... and frankly I believe that's going to leave Gmail with its huge storage you can't use (because you can't import to it) in the dust.

Put your email client (Thunderbird) on a 2GB encrypted flash drive (on the fly encrypted with TrueCrypt). Configure it to use Gmail as a POP3 account and set it to 'Leave messages on server'. Set your outgoing server as smtp.gmail.com. What that setup gives you is all your saved emails on the flash drive, and copies of all your sent and received emails from now on, both on the flash and on your Gmail. You then have a portable email system, accessible from anywhere, with a nice secure SSL Gmail account that you can also send and receive from on any computer. Plus you've got backup. I also added Portable Firefox and a few other apps, to build a complete web interface on the flash drive. You can use BCCs (blind carbon copies) to other accounts to keep the two systems somewhat (or exactly) synchronized.

It works so well that I've stopped using the installed apps on my PC and just plug in the flash whenever I use the web. It's a brilliant system. I hope it works for you. LET US KNOW HOW YOU GET ON.
Gamailer