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Easily import Mail messages to Gmail via IMAP
Authored by: gxw on Fri, Dec 21 2007 at 4:48PM PST

Tried this a few weeks ago.
The technique is sound but I've had problems uploading to gmail.
Lots of time outs from gmail. Have only managed to upload a couple of folders worth of mail so far.

Easily import Mail messages to Gmail via IMAP
Authored by: MiggittyMacDaddy on Wed, May 6 2009 at 10:48AM PDT

Thanks for the write up. I have also experienced Gmail timing out after transferring a hundred or so messages, so I need to manually just select the messages again and drag them over to the Gmail IMAP folders. I just need to keep repeating that till all my messages are moved from old Yahoo POP account. Hoorary for Google for making this importing of mail possible and easy!

BTW all the attributes of the email are preserved: date sent, sender, receiver, etc.