Redirecting old email to gmail?

[Davegod75]

So I switched to gmail but I want to have the 2600 emails I had in yahoo moved over to gmail.

I have already gotten them all into Thunderbird.

But I cannot figure out how to redirect them all to gmail and KEEP THE ORIGINAL SENDER.

I have downloaded the mailredirect extension but that messes up the original sender and changes it to me.

Does anyone know how to get this to work?


Thanks!

 

[compnovice]

I also want to know...

 

[randomlinh]

uhh.. the mail redirect program didn't mess up the sender for me

 

[Davegod75]

really, what/who are you using for you smtp server?

 

[Davegod75]

well i got it to sorta work..

emails look like this:

SENDER NAME <my email address>

So the sender name is the original but it is still sticking my email address in there if you peek at the header. Also the send date/time is not being kept.

This is annoying

 

[Davegod75]

bump

 

[Davegod75]

anyone?

 

[Davegod75]

help..

i'm running xampp (apache, mysql, php, etc) and it is supposed to include a smtp server. I tried setting it up in hopes that I could redirect the email myself but I cannot get thunderbird to connect to localhost to do it.

 

[DeeKnow]

i've been loooking for this for almost a year now, and haven't found anyting that works
(i.e. uploads archived emails with the correct sender's name and the original date)

I cannot figure out why Google will not offer this... its got to be good for them to help people migrate all their old email to gmail !!

 

[Davegod75]

Originally posted by: DeeKnow
i've been loooking for this for almost a year now, and haven't found anyting that works
(i.e. uploads archived emails with the correct sender's name and the original date)

I cannot figure out why Google will not offer this... its got to be good for them to help people migrate all their old email to gmail !!

that's not good to hear.

I would think that sendmail for unix would support REDIRECT but i cannot seem to get my local smtp server setup to do it