Anyone moved all their email to Gmail? How did you do it & how do you find it?

TheBigCheese

TheBigCheese

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Morning guys

I use Thunderbird for virtually all my important email, business and personal.

Last night the computer had a bit of a wobbler, when I booted back into Windows all my email for Thunderbird was gone, I have no idea what's happened to the email folder associated with the account.

I've looked at backups I've got but stupidly they are out of date. I haven't lost any incoming mail as that's stored on servers but all my outgoing messages, quotes and whatnot have disappeared. :eek::(:mad:

I was wondering about moving everything over to Gmail and then I can access it where ever I am and I know it's backup up without me thinking about it.

I would need to back up two or three addresses - a@bigcheese, b@bigcheese, c@bigcheese.

I know how to make aliases so it looks like Gmail mail is being sent from a@bigcheese rather than a@gmail but I'm not sure about uploading everything to Gmail.

Basically I'd like an archive of the directory in Thunderbird online...all several GBs of it!

Can something like that be done and is it recommended for business?

Finally can I get that free or do I have to sign up to Google business and be charged for it?


Thanks!
 
You'd have to send it to yourself manually afaik. Not heard of an import mail, there is also outlook.com which Ive not used yet

I haven't lost any incoming mail as that's stored on servers
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So you can collect this via gmail then
 
If you get Google Apps you can use your own domain and do exactly as you explained in terms of aliases etc.

You can then use the Migration tool to copy your email from Outlook to gmail using the migration tool: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/exchangemigration.

With Thunderbird you would need to import the mail into Outlook first, then migrate from there. Maybe get the trial of Outlook unless you already have it?
 
Why not just use IMAP with your current email provider? That way all your email is stored on the server rather than downloading it all to your computer and removing it from the server (as is done with POP3).
 
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