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Moving Thunderbird Local Folders to Gmail

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Charles Meyerson
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I have thousands of emails I've moved from Entourage into Thunderbird (mbox folders). They work fine in Thunderbird.

Now I'd like to move them to a Gmail account I've enabled via IMAP in Thunderbird. Moving them manually—either en mass, folder by folder; or individually—to Thunderbird's Gmail folder (label) does nothing; they don't show up in Gmail (either in Thunderbird or using Gmail's web interface).

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

I have thousands of emails I've moved from Entourage into Thunderbird (mbox folders). They work fine in Thunderbird. Now I'd like to move them to a Gmail account I've enabled via IMAP in Thunderbird. Moving them manually—either en mass, folder by folder; or individually—to Thunderbird's Gmail folder (label) does nothing; they don't show up in Gmail (either in Thunderbird or using Gmail's web interface). Any suggestions? Thanks.

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david
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You might try the importexport addon, but moving from PC to IMAP is not easy, as IMAP wasn't built for that. However, that addon sometimes works wonders.

Charles Meyerson
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Thanks. Have that add-on; that's how I got these folders to show up in Thunderbird (as Local folders).

Any other suggestions? (My real goal here is to move thousands of emails from Entourage to Gmail. I was hoping Thunderbird could act as an intermediary.)

Gratefully,

CM

david
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After further review, I think your problem is challenging. The 'move to' in right-click in message list pane works, but only in small volume. There might be a separate utility that uploads bulk messages to IMAP.

Charles Meyerson
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Thanks again. To my experience, "Move to" doesn't work with even a single message.

So the search goes on …

sfhowes
sfhowes
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See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1400416