{"id":18,"date":"2007-09-10T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/paul\/2007\/09\/10\/archive-old-outlook-messages-to-gmail\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T01:22:39","slug":"archive-old-outlook-messages-to-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/paul\/2007\/09\/10\/archive-old-outlook-messages-to-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive Old Outlook Messages to Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to report that by using Mozilla Thunderbird and Google&#8217;s own mail fetcher, I have neatly migrated and archived into Gmail nearly 5,700 old messages from the days before Gmail.  All messages are correctly dated and named inside Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>The process took a few hours in all, and involved importing the old Outlook messages into Thunderbird, which then redirected the messages to a duplicate Gmail account, and finally the messages were fetched via POP3 by the Gmail&#8217;s built in mail fetcher.  By closely following the directions from Zoli Erdos, the process was smooth and successful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoliblog.com\/2007\/03\/28\/how-to-import-all-your-archive-email-into-gmail\/\">http:\/\/www.zoliblog.com\/2007\/03\/28\/how-to-import-all-your-archive-email-into-gmail\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a great relief to rid myself of a 500+ MB Outlook .pst file.  Thanks Zoli for these directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to report that by using Mozilla Thunderbird and Google&#8217;s own mail fetcher, I have neatly migrated and archived into Gmail nearly 5,700 old messages from the days before Gmail. All messages are correctly dated and named inside Gmail. The process took a few hours in all, and involved importing the old Outlook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}