Comments on: Import Mail from Mac OS X into Gmail

By: nibo

nibo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:56:36 +0000

I know that this was published a long time ago, but it’s still in use! I’m in the process of migrating 6 months of work email to gmail and am breathing a sigh of relief! Thanks!!

By: Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:18:22 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:06:36 +0000

I just transferred my emails from Entourage and at many points I didn’t think it was going to be possible. I changed email hosts and had little data to “pop”. It was all on my machine.

I found a way to do it, different from yours, but it worked well and I want to get the word out.

Hoping for link to the how to…so others don’t have to waste 20 hours figuring out how to do this.

Thanks,
—Mike
http://mikestask.googlepages.com

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:12:52 +0000

Hello all…I am a retarded…this is all way over my head.

I am running Tiger on a Powerbook G4. My old mail client is entourage. How do I set this program up to run with those parameters? If someone would be so kind as to give me a more or less step by step guide as to how to do this…that would be unbelievable.

Much appreciated,
-b

By: r33k5

r33k5 — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:52:10 +0000

this works pretty well if you download mark lyon’s 0.4 version. However, the timestamp that you see in your gmail inbox will always be the date gmail received it; if you open the message, you get the correct date. This goes for both the python script as using the filters in apple’s mail.app. So just go with that if you’re not into the techy stuff!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:58:08 +0000

You Guys Rock Works like a champ.

By: Blatant Dog

Blatant Dog — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the script! it worked like a champ!

By: Blatant Dog

Blatant Dog — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Just as a follow-up, I had 40MB of mail, (978 pieces) and it took about six hours to move it all…But is was all done while I did other things thats to this script.

By: noel

noel — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

umm…what?

By: Jared Hawkins

Jared Hawkins — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I get this message in the terminal:

*** Can’t open file or directory. Is the path correct? ***

By: robothouse

robothouse — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I gave this script a shot, but it doesn’t do anything… no return codes, etc, nothing…

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The paths are case sensitive. Make sure you entered your username exactly as it’s labled in your home folder. Or, just use the “mail rule” method above instead. It’s much more mac user friendly if you’re sheepish about AppleScripts.

By: robothouse

robothouse — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, I did the case sensitivity stuffs… mail.app rule sounds way beter… running it now :) thanks!

By: will

will — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

MUPPETS!
“I get this message in the terminal: *** Can’t open file or directory. Is the path correct? ***@June 19, 2004 10:38 PM”
Well duhhh you need to edit the first few lines of the script.

RTFM!
“4. Modify the properties at the top of the script”

By: mrdiron

mrdiron — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Just a note – your script assumes that you only have one account in Mail.app, or rather, assumes that Mail.app handles multiple accounts in a sane way. You pretty much have to do it by hand, if you have multiple accounts. I guess email me if you can’t figure it out.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Um. Dude. I have 7 accounts and it worked fine for me.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

think the python script has been edited – download link is http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/gmlw.tar instead and the file is gmlw.py and there are some failures to load some modules in python…

the alternative method of forwarding is that old mails will not have the correct time stamp…

any suggestions? thanks.

By: Macuser64

Macuser64 — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I did both the rule and the apple script. I’m not sure which one is working, but it is! I was just about to give up, because when I ran the script, I got 4 windows, but frankly didn’t know what to do with them and then Gmail refreshed and there was the test message I sent to myself.

Thank you!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Getting an error about ‘Tkinter not running’ or something like that…

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I tried the redirect idea but it looks like not all my email got to google.
Does anyone know if the count google gives is of threads or messages? If threads, how to count messages?

Thanks