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I've been poking around on the Gmail help forums but haven't found the answer I'm looking for:
I have two Gmail accounts. One is a nickname I got a long time ago, one is my actual full name. I have been mainly using the nickname one for all personal email for a couple of years now, and that is the one most people use. I have been, up until today, forwarding all mail from the full-name account to this one, which works fine. The only place I really was using the full-name address was on my resume and things like that. I am now wanting to switch the mainly using the full-name account, and I have flipped the forwarding to have all the nickname mail forward to it. So far so good. I've even exported all the contacts from the nickname account to the full-name one.
The only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to bulk-move all the archived and Inbox messages/conversations from the nickname account to the full-name one without forwarding them one by one, so that I don't have to keep toggling between accounts (since they won't let you login to multiple accounts at the same time) to dig up old stuff. I generally archive all bill-paying/banking/crap-I-might-need-later messages, so there is alot of Important Crap in the nickname account that I need to keep. Yes, I know it's not a very sophisticated filing system, cut me some slack.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!!
I have two Gmail accounts. One is a nickname I got a long time ago, one is my actual full name. I have been mainly using the nickname one for all personal email for a couple of years now, and that is the one most people use. I have been, up until today, forwarding all mail from the full-name account to this one, which works fine. The only place I really was using the full-name address was on my resume and things like that. I am now wanting to switch the mainly using the full-name account, and I have flipped the forwarding to have all the nickname mail forward to it. So far so good. I've even exported all the contacts from the nickname account to the full-name one.
The only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to bulk-move all the archived and Inbox messages/conversations from the nickname account to the full-name one without forwarding them one by one, so that I don't have to keep toggling between accounts (since they won't let you login to multiple accounts at the same time) to dig up old stuff. I generally archive all bill-paying/banking/crap-I-might-need-later messages, so there is alot of Important Crap in the nickname account that I need to keep. Yes, I know it's not a very sophisticated filing system, cut me some slack.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!!
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Re: migrating inbox?
Fri, January 26, 2007 - 12:39 PMWhy not just a email program like Microsoft Outlook (outlook express etc) or incredimail and have it d/l messages from both accounts?
That way you don't have to log in and out to check both accounts and you can save all your emails in one spot
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Re: migrating inbox?
Fri, January 26, 2007 - 5:24 PMWell, that's not a bad idea, however, I use a webmail account precisely because I DON'T like POP mail that gets D/L to one place. I like being able to access my email from any web browser, anywhere.
Not long after I posted my original request, I did managed to locate a workaround in the Gmail help forum...it involves installing Thunderbird, Firefox's email client, and D/L'ing all the email you want to move, then installing a Redirection extension which will (supposedly) let you bounce the messages with the original headers intact. I did this, and it's sorta working, except that when the messages hit my full-name gmail account, they have a timestamp with the time the redirection happened, even if the email has otherwise gone untouched for years. So that's a little irritating because I then can't really sort by received date/time, but for archival purposes, it's better than nothing.
I'd never used Thunderbird before this, but a friend has raved about it for years. It's not bad, except that it doesn't seem to be capable of storing my password and not prompting me for it (even though I've checked the "Remember my password" box) with each redirected email, which is sort of ridiculous. Anyway, this isn't the Firefox/Thunderbird Hacks tribe, so enough about that. :) -
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Re: migrating inbox?
Wed, June 6, 2007 - 10:46 AMConsidering your original post is from January I am assuming you figured this out already, however if you did not you can now use Google as POP mail both ways. In other words you can download the mail from one account into the other as if gmail were both your mail server and your mail application. I hope this makes sense.
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