Many people enjoy the easy search and antispam features of GMail. But what do you do about the thousands of messages that you already have stored in your old, desktop email client? For some users, there’s a new answer: the Google Email Uploader, which processes those old mailboxes and adds their contents to your Google mailbox. The uploaded messages then become easily searchable, and the upload process preserves the folder structure of your old mailboxes.
There are some serious limitations, though: the software only works with Outlook or Thunderbird mailboxes, and only on Windows XP or Vista. It doesn’t work with regular GMail accounts, only with Google Apps for Domains. And it’s slow (and while you’re using it, you can’t have your old mail open – though you can pause the process). But if you do have your Google Apps for Domains account (or are ready to move to one), it’s one more step to moving your entire working life to online servers.
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