Comments on: Merging Gmail & Google Apps Mail Accounts

By: Francis (Philippines)

Francis (Philippines) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:27:05 +0000

What I did when I migrated from GMAIL to Google Apps Mail is that I set both up in Outlook (or Entourage).. GMAIL being set up in POP while Google Apps in IMAP… then literally do a cut-and-paste from GMAIL’s inbox to Google Apps’ inbox and leave it… in no time (or in my case, 6 years’ worth of email), I was able to move my email to the new address..

HTH

By: Will McKenney

Will McKenney — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:42:59 +0000

Your explanation about fetching your mail was interesting. Perhaps you cann help me. After setting up my Thaunderbird and IMAP to Gmail Apps the expected folders were created in Thunderbird except All Mail. It was a label in Gmail. I cerated an All Mail folder in Thunderbird and the [GMAI]/All Mail label swas in the Gmail Apps. But there was no transfer of mail from All Mail to [GMAIL]All Mail in Gmail and therefore none to my Thunderbird.. I may have somehow deleted All Mail.
Is there any way to get All Mail started up to transfer mail to Thunderbird? Thanks for your help.

By: Raj Dhaliwal

Raj Dhaliwal — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:25:52 +0000

Will it keep all the stars, superstars, labels etc in place

By: Dylan Bauer

Dylan Bauer — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:20:24 +0000

I also tried this a while ago, but it ended up causing a huge mess… Not all of my emails were being imported, so I had to delete them all and try again. Glad to say it eventually worked!

By: Carsten Cumbrowski

Carsten Cumbrowski — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:49:15 +0000

I knew that I am not alone. The URL for my comment points to a SEJ post of mine from December 30, 2007. It talks about several problems and bugs of various Google services (it was actually a 2 part series and not just one post).
The problems with the Gmail migration are still not solved to my knowledge. However, I refer to a number of tools that make the pain as less of a pain as possible. The rest will be up to Google.
I also talk about Google Desktop. How do I tell desktop that my Gmail account is not the generic free one, but hosted. I have a google account for the same email address, but don’t use gmail with that. Also the password for the accounts are different.
Are you using Google Desktop in combination with your hosted Gmail and found a solution for this problem?

By: graywolf

graywolf — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:24:15 +0000

I tried switching over but biggest issue I found was that a lot my greasemonkey and FF special plugins stopped working. Since I’m sued to all those tools saving me time and clicks all day it was a deal breaker for me.
maybe I’ll try again in the future cause I do like the being on your own domain thing.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:15:21 +0000

Yup, backing up can take a while–but at least it’s doable, which is a good thing. I hadn’t thought about the case of getting new mail while you’re in the process of importing old/regular Gmail into a Google Apps account.
I’m glad that Google Apps lets you solve the “Gmail Custom From” issue.