I know how to set up mail forwarding from m NCSU email to a gmail account. I know how to set up Gmail so that it looks like I'm sending and receiving email from my NCSU email account. However, is there a way to move all of my existing emails to gmail other than manually forwarding them?

This would be much easier if Gmail was able to directly access IMAP accounts.

11/4/2008 9:10:57 AM

fairly certain you can email help@ncsu.edu (or whatever the help email address is) and they'll do it for you

11/4/2008 9:37:33 AM

What will they do exactly?

I've done a little more research online and it looks like I may be able to use Thunderbird as a sort of intermediary where I can access both my gmail and NCSU accounts at the same time and basically drag and drop. I haven't tried doing this so I don't know how it would work. If I could turn on POP3 access on my NCSU email for like an hour this wouldn't be an issue.

11/4/2008 9:48:16 AM

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"However, is there a way to move all of my existing emails to gmail other than manually forwarding them?"

they will do that

11/4/2008 9:55:42 AM

I found this: http://help.ncsu.edu/solutions/ncsu/3222.php , but the tool they recommend wouldn't preserve the dates of the original emails.

11/4/2008 10:17:59 AM

or just set up IMAP connections to both accounts using Outlook or Thunderbird and drag and drop from NCSU to Gmail

totally painless

I did it with Outlook and it worked but Tbird I'm sure will as well

[Edited on November 4, 2008 at 10:19 AM. Reason : ]

11/4/2008 10:18:10 AM

I'm trying the Thunderbird option now.

11/4/2008 12:08:38 PM

Using Thunderbird seems to be working OK. You have to move a single folder at a time and I'm not on the fastest internet connection so they whole processes is taking a rather long time.

11/4/2008 1:48:01 PM

if Gmail offered an option to pull IMAP mail (instead of just POP), that would help a lot of people.

11/4/2008 2:34:06 PM

I agree.

11/4/2008 3:00:04 PM

if only they did that. they could call the imap server "imap.google.com", too.

11/4/2008 3:11:45 PM

FYI: According to the email I got back from help@ncsu.edu they told me that there wasn't anything automated that they could offer me.

11/4/2008 3:15:39 PM

^^ i think you misunderstood what i was suggesting.

11/4/2008 3:38:45 PM

^you misunderstood that gmail DOES have imap
^^download all the mail to your local computer with thunderbird or outlook or something, then use gmail uploader to push it to your gmail.

11/5/2008 9:28:56 AM

^ you're saying that Gmail has the ability to pull your IMAP mail from another location? I'm not talking about using IMAP to access Gmail.

11/5/2008 8:18:59 PM

^I think they were still misunderstanding what you were saying

the only thing Gmail can do is dump all your emails from another address using POP, not IMAP

11/5/2008 9:50:23 PM

This is awesome. Thanks for the link, darkone. This is great for those of us who just graduated.

11/9/2008 4:25:27 AM

^ Drag and drop with Thunderbird for no other reason that to preserve the date structure of your emails.

11/9/2008 2:44:21 PM