How to put messages into Outlook that were already in gmail inbox.

[Julie Sue]

I just set up Outlook 2003 to be my main email software. I am using an
internet based account, gmail. Is there a way to "import" the messages that
I have already received and saved (before setting up Outlook) in my gmail
inbox and sent messages from gmail to Outlook?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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I just set up Outlook 2003 to be my main email software. I am using
an internet based account, gmail. Is there a way to "import" the
messages that I have already received and saved (before setting up
Outlook) in my gmail inbox and sent messages from gmail to Outlook?

Since Gmail doesn't use folders to organize mail, but rather keeps
everything in the inbox, what happens if you use POP3 to connect to your
Gmail account? (if you want to keep a copy of the mail on the server, make
sure to tick the box called "leave a copy of messages on server" in your
Outlook POP account properties....)

You can find out info on the Gmail POP settings on their help pages.

 

[Vanguard]

I just set up Outlook 2003 to be my main email software. I am using an
internet based account, gmail. Is there a way to "import" the
messages that
I have already received and saved (before setting up Outlook) in my
gmail
inbox and sent messages from gmail to Outlook?

So what e-mail program were you using BEFORE you switched to Outlook?
If you were simply using their webmail interface then any mails in your
Inbox will get retrieved by Outlook. However, as I recall, you had to
configure Gmail's POP3 service so it would dish up *all* mails in the
Inbox rather than just those that were "new" (since you last used their
webmail interface). Besides enabling the POP3 access option, you may
also have to change the behavior from archiving read messages to leaving
them in the Inbox (and let your POP3 e-mail program handle sending the
DEL command after using RETR).

 

[Vanguard]

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

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Since Gmail doesn't use folders to organize mail, but rather keeps
everything in the inbox, what happens if you use POP3 to connect to
your Gmail account? (if you want to keep a copy of the mail on the
server, make sure to tick the box called "leave a copy of messages on
server" in your Outlook POP account properties....)

Actually, Gmail's POP3 "emulation" is really screwed up. You could set
the "leave on server" option in your e-mail program but Gmail would
still delete the mails after yanking a copy of them. Gmail has its own
options where you decide to archive, delete, or leave mails in your
Inbox when they are accessed. The "leave on server" option in your
e-mail program eliminates sending the DEL command after using the RETR
command to get the mail; otherwise, the default behavior is to do a RETR
(retrieve) followed by a DEL (delete). If you configure your Gmail
account to delete a mail after yanking a copy, nothing you configure in
your e-mail client will change that behavior.

Gmail does NOT actually use POP3. Google provides a POP3 connect but
doesn't properly support the full POP3 protocol. Rather than letting
the user's POP3 e-mail client manage the mailbox contents, Gmail uses
server-side options to dictate behavior. Since Google hasn't fixed any
problems, and since it has been in beta for a couple YEARS, maybe it
will permanently be in beta (i.e., unfixed) status. Released in April
2004 and still beta.