RE: [OT] Email Archives

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Given Googles often quoted practices of not discarding information
then does
anyone else think that it's a bloody bad idea to put all your personal
email
through gmail?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Ben Geach
> Sent: 21 May 2009 11:04
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Email Archives
>
> I've recently done this with my old Outlook 2003 .pst archives as I've
> moved totally to web & phone interface for gmail now, after many
years
> using gmail POP & IMAP in outlook.
>
> I had only a couple of GB .pst files to import and did it manually by
> creating an IMAP account within Outlook for new gmail account, then
> 'drag and dropping' the message in bulk from outlook's personal
> folders to IMAP account (gave me a chance to clear out some unwanted
> messages too). TIP : If you create a 'folder' in Outlook within the
> gmail IMAP inbox, these appear as labels & any messages dropped
here
> will have the label applied when they transfer to gmail (useful for
> sent items etc....).
>
> The process was painless and I'm very pleased with Gmail's search
&
> indexing capabilities.
>
> My experience was when you drag and drop from outlook personal folders
> to IMAP it seems to delete the Outlook local copy, so it's wise to
> make a duplicate of the PST before opening it in Outlook to preserve a
> copy for future.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Ben
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Rob Mouser <groups@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > All this talk of email has got me thinking.....
> >
> >
> >
> > I have several archives of past work email, probably a good
10-15gig.
> At
> > the moment they are in individual PST archives which I create
roughly
> > every year.
> >
> > I on occasion I need to search through them to find some
pertinent
> info
> > which means loading the archives and searching, easy if you can
> remember
> > which archive they are likely to be in :-/
> >
> > On Mark's (and others) recommendation I've been looking at gmail
and
> so
> > far I'm impressed. The one BIG benefit is Googles excellent
indexing
> and
> > I also like the "labels" function as you can add more
than one label
> to
> > an email.
> >
> > I'm now wondering whether to import all my mail into gmail (I
would
> > still hold onto my precious backups!). I'd have to pay for extra
> storage
> > but that's not toooo bad.
> >
> > Does anyone else do anything similar? Any other suggestions?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> >
> >
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