How to mass forward the Gmail archive

[Dead1nside]

Hi there,

I've turned on forwarding now to another mail account, but that will only work from now on. How can I forward all the mail in the entire account (so the back log) to another email account (also Gmail)?

I've tried a filter that will send all to('my email address') mails to my other email address, whilst checking the "Including [number] conversations below". Still no luck.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

[ennma]

where did you turn on the forwarding?

just send it to yourself, wouldn't it be forwarding to what ever account is on the forwarding list?

ennma

[Dead1nside]

In Settings, you can turn on forwarding so that from then on, all received email is forwarded to whatever email account. So this solves the problem in the future. However it doesn't seem possible to mass forward all the old email (remember the forwarding only works for new incoming email). You cannot simply select all and then forward to etc.

EDIT: So for clarity, I could go through message by message and forward but there are 2000. It's not practical.

[tomh009]

You could connect to gmail with your new mail client and use POP3 to download the existing email.

[Dead1nside]

I currently use POP3 with Thunderbird, but my computer's down. Accessing my emails with the same account that I just use POP3 messes it up though. That's why I need a mirror basically, one for my POP3 one for occasional viewing.

[tomh009]

It messes up ... your computer? Your gmail? Your other POP3 account?

[GomJabbar]

I don't use gmail, so maybe this won't work, but I believe I have run into similar circumstances as yours. See if the following will work for you. Move all your email from the read folder or sent folder back to the inbox. I can do this with Earthlink web mail. Once it's in the inbox, you can download it to your POP3 account.

[Dead1nside]

It messes up ... your computer? Your gmail? Your other POP3 account?

It messes up the arrangement between my account's copy and Thunderbird's copy, it starts downloading ALL the messages again, and not just the new ones. So it means I cannot access it without risking this happening again.

[Sixt]

Would an IMAP connection work?

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/arch ... -over-imap

[Dead1nside]

Oh nice, I've been looking to do IMAP for awhile, it's apparently a lot lot better. Thanks for that, I'll look at that later.

[ennma]

Sorry I was under the assumption you are using imap for your current gmail account, that is why I mentioned , just by selecting all
your current messages and send it to your new gmail account.

Also I apologize not realizing the webmail version of gmail, is not capable of , select all then forward.

thanks

[Dead1nside]

So does IMAP fully work from Gmail to Thunderbird? Because this solves some other issues of mine if so.

I prefer not to use Gmail's web interface, but it's always handy to have webmail in situations like this (computer broken by a power surge, just got my Thinkpad).

Thanks for the replies.

[ennma]

well, what i have is not acctually imap persay, but its pop with the option of leaving the messages on the server instead of downloading them.

[NS]

For safety precaution, i do not download my messages at all. I prefer to leave my messages on the mail server so that it will not take up any space on my computer and also to prevent spams, virus and etc...

[Dead1nside]

well, what i have is not acctually imap persay, but its pop with the option of leaving the messages on the server instead of downloading them.

That's what I use, so in case my local copy is destroyed somehow.